The One Before The Last Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEAE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NONN| I 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Sickly I pondered how the lover | H |
| Wrongs the unanswering tomb | I |
| And sentimentalizes over | H |
| What earned a better doom | I |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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