An Afternoon Soliloquy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BCCD EFGE HIIH JAAJ HKKH| How good some years of life may be | A |
| Ah once it was not guessed by me | A |
| Past years would shine like some bright sea | A |
| In golden dusks of memory | A |
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| Ere then the music of the dawn | B |
| From me had long since surged away | C |
| And in the disillusioned day | C |
| Of chill mid life I plodded on | D |
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| Anon a fuller music thrilled | E |
| My world with meaning undertones | F |
| That elegized our vanished ones | G |
| And told how Lethe's banks are filled | E |
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| With wordless calm and wistful rest | H |
| And sweet large silence solemn sleep | I |
| And brooding shadows cool and deep | I |
| And grand oblivions undistressed | H |
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| No more 'twas Lethe rolling doom | J |
| But Lethe calling Come to me | A |
| And wash away all memory | A |
| And taint of what precedes the tomb | J |
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| And know the changeless afterthought | H |
| Half guessed half named from age to age | K |
| Wherein I quench the flame and rage | K |
| And sorrow with which life is fraught | H |
Thomas Runciman
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