Yesterday And To-morrow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHEH IGJG CKLK MFCF| Yesterday I held your hand | A |
| Reverently I pressed it | B |
| And its gentle yieldingness | C |
| From my soul I blessed it | B |
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| But to day I sit alone | D |
| Sad and sore repining | E |
| Must our gold forever know | F |
| Flames for the refining | E |
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| Yesterday I walked with you | G |
| Could a day be sweeter | H |
| Life was all a lyric song | E |
| Set to tricksy meter | H |
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| Ah to day is like a dirge | I |
| Place my arms around you | G |
| Let me feel the same dear joy | J |
| As when first I found you | G |
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| Let me once retrace my steps | C |
| From these roads unpleasant | K |
| Let my heart and mind and soul | L |
| All ignore the present | K |
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| Yesterday the iron seared | M |
| And to day means sorrow | F |
| Pause my soul arise arise | C |
| Look where gleams the morrow | F |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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