The Light Of Other Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEFGEABAB HIHIEFJKKLABAB| Oft in the stilly night | A |
| Ere slumber's chain has bound me | B |
| Fond Memory brings the light | A |
| Of other days around me | B |
| The smiles the tears | C |
| Of boyhood's years | D |
| The words of love then spoken | E |
| The eyes that shone | F |
| Now dimm'd and gone | G |
| The cheerful hearts now broken | E |
| Thus in the stilly night | A |
| Ere slumber's chain has bound me | B |
| Sad Memory brings the light | A |
| Of other days around me | B |
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| When I remember all | H |
| The friends so link'd together | I |
| I've seen around me fall | H |
| Like leaves in wintry weather | I |
| I feel like one | E |
| Who treads alone | F |
| Some banquet hall deserted | J |
| Whose lights are fled | K |
| Whose garlands dead | K |
| And all but he departed | L |
| Thus in the stilly night | A |
| Ere slumber's chain has bound me | B |
| Sad Memory brings the light | A |
| Of other days around me | B |
Thomas Moore
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Dipendra Bhowmick: penetrating. We read this in our early schooldays. I remember the angelical teacher used to teach in the English class, used to tell stories that ring and ring through the life time as if in the ears of eternity. Where is that teacher, where are the friends, gone with the wind, the banquet hall deserted.....
D. Bhowmick: So nostalgic. A poem for all hearts. Written in simple words but so profusely penetrating. We read this in our early schooldays. I remember the angelical teacher used to teach in the English class, used to tell stories that ring and ring through the life time as if in the ears of eternity. Where is that teacher, where are the friends, gone with the wind, the banquet hall deserted.....
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