Not Sour Grapes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDC EFFECDDC GHHGCDDC| I'm not sorry I am older love are you | A |
| Over all youth's fuss and flurry | B |
| All its everlasting hurry | B |
| All its solemn self importance and to do | A |
| Perhaps we missed the highest reaches of high art | C |
| Love we missed not and the laughter | D |
| Seeing both before and after | D |
| Life was such a serious business at the start | C |
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| We've lost nothing worth the keeping do you think | E |
| You are just as slim and elfish | F |
| And I've grown a world less selfish | F |
| We look back on life together and we wink | E |
| Over all those old misgivings of the heart | C |
| Growing pains of love and lover | D |
| Life's fun begins its fevers over | D |
| Life was such a serious business at the start | C |
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| Garners full life's grain and chaff we have sifted | G |
| Youth went by in idle tasting | H |
| Now we drink the cup unhasting | H |
| Spill not a drop brimful and high uplifted | G |
| And we watch now calm and fearless the years depart | C |
| Knowing nothing can now sever | D |
| Two that life made one forever | D |
| Life was such a serious business at the start | C |
Richard Le Gallienne
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