Retrospection Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGFGBHBHIJIJKLK LAJAJGHGHMGMGGJGJJGJ GNONOPGQGRSRSJJJJTGG GAUAUAfter C S C | A |
When the hunter star Orion | B |
Or it may be Charles his Wain | C |
Tempts the tiny elves to try on | D |
All their little tricks again | E |
When the earth is calmly breathing | F |
Draughts of slumber undefiled | G |
And the sire unused to teething | F |
Seeks for errant pins his child | G |
When the moon is on the ocean | B |
And our little sons and heirs | H |
From a natural emotion | B |
Wish the luminary theirs | H |
Then a feeling hard to stifle | I |
Even harder to define | J |
Makes me feel I 'd give a trifle | I |
For the days of Auld Lang Syne | J |
James for we have been as brothers | K |
Are to speak correctly twins | L |
Went about in one another's | K |
Clothing bore each other's sins | L |
Rose together ere the pearly | A |
Tint of morn had left the heaven | J |
And retired absurdly early | A |
Simultaneously at seven | J |
James the days of yore were pleasant | G |
Sweet to climb for alien pears | H |
Till the irritated peasant | G |
Came and took us unawares | H |
Sweet to devastate his chickens | M |
As the ambush'd catapult | G |
Scattered and the very dickens | M |
Was the natural result | G |
Sweet to snare the thoughtless rabbit | G |
Break the next door neighbour's pane | J |
Cultivate the smoker's habit | G |
On the not innocuous cane | J |
Leave the exercise unwritten | J |
Systematically cut | G |
Morning school to plunge the kitten | J |
In his bath the water butt | G |
Age my James that from the cheek of | N |
Beauty steals its rosy hue | O |
Has not left us much to speak of | N |
But 'tis not for this I rue | O |
Beauty with its thousand graces | P |
Hair and tints that will not fade | G |
You may get from many places | Q |
Practically ready made | G |
No it is the evanescence | R |
Of those lovelier tints of Hope | S |
Bubbles such as adolescence | R |
Joys to win from melted soap | S |
Emphasizing the conclusion | J |
That the dreams of Youth remain | J |
Castles that are An delusion | J |
Castles that's to say in Spain | J |
Age thinks 'fit ' and I say 'fiat ' | T |
Here I stand for Fortune's butt | G |
As for Sunday swains to shy at | G |
Stands the stoic coco nut | G |
If you wish it put succinctly | A |
Gone are all our little games | U |
But I thought I 'd say distinctly | A |
What I feel about it James | U |
Sir Arthur Quiller-couch
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