Looking Backward Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEE FFGG HHBB IIHH JJKK| Gray towers make me think of thee | A |
| Thou girl of olden minstrelsy | B |
| Young as the sunlight of to day | C |
| Silent as tasselled boughs in May | C |
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| A wind flower in a world of harm | D |
| A harebell on a turret's arm | D |
| A pearl upon the hilt of fame | E |
| Thou wert fair child of some high name | E |
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| The velvet page the deep eyed knight | F |
| The heartless falcon poised for flight | F |
| The dainty steed and graceful hound | G |
| In thee their keenest rapture found | G |
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| But for old ballads and the rhyme | H |
| And writ of genius o'er the time | H |
| When keeps had newly reared their towers | B |
| The winning scene had not been ours | B |
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| O Chivalry thy age was fair | I |
| When even knaves set out to dare | I |
| Their heads for any barbarous crime | H |
| And hate was brave and love sublime | H |
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| The bugle note I send so far | J |
| Across Time's moors to thee sweet star | J |
| Where stands thy castle in its mist | K |
| Hear if the wandering breezes list | K |
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
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