The One Before The Last Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEAE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NONNI dreamt I was in love again | A |
With the One Before the Last | B |
And smiled to greet the pleasant pain | C |
Of that innocent young past | B |
- | |
But I jumped to feel how sharp had been | D |
The pain when it did live | E |
How the faded dreams of Nineteen ten | A |
Were Hell in Nineteen five | E |
- | |
The boy's woe was as keen and clear | F |
The boy's love just as true | G |
And the One Before the Last my dear | F |
Hurt quite as much as you | G |
- | |
- | |
- | |
Sickly I pondered how the lover | H |
Wrongs the unanswering tomb | I |
And sentimentalizes over | H |
What earned a better doom | I |
- | |
Gently he tombs the poor dim last time | J |
Strews pinkish dust above | K |
And sighs The dear dead boyish pastime | J |
But this ah God is Love | K |
- | |
Better oblivion hide dead true loves | L |
Better the night enfold | M |
Than men to eke the praise of new loves | L |
Should lie about the old | M |
- | |
- | |
- | |
Oh bitter thoughts I had in plenty | N |
But here's the worst of it | O |
I shall forget in Nineteen twenty | N |
You ever hurt abit | N |
Rupert Brooke
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about The One Before The Last poem by Rupert Brooke
Best Poems of Rupert Brooke