Players Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEF GHGH IFIF JEJE KLKM EFEFAnd after all and after all | A |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Our passionate prayers and sighs and tears | B |
Is life a reckless carnival | C |
nbsp nbsp nbsp And are they lost our golden years | D |
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Ah no ah no for long ago | E |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Ere time could sear or care could fret | F |
There was a youth called Romeo | E |
nbsp nbsp nbsp There was a maid named Juliet | F |
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The players of the past are gone | G |
nbsp nbsp nbsp The races rise the races pass | H |
And softly over all is drawn | G |
nbsp nbsp nbsp The quiet Curtain of the Grass | H |
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But when the world went wild with Spring | I |
nbsp nbsp nbsp What days we had Do you forget | F |
When I of all the world was King | I |
nbsp nbsp nbsp And you were my Queen Juliet | F |
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The things that are the things that seem | J |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Who shall distinguish shape from show | E |
The great processional splendid dream | J |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Of life is all I wish to know | E |
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The gods their faces turn away | K |
nbsp nbsp nbsp From nations and their little wars | L |
But we our golden drama play | K |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Before the footlights of the stars | M |
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There lives though Time should cease to flow | E |
nbsp nbsp nbsp And stars their courses should forget | F |
There lives a grey haired Romeo | E |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Who loves a golden Juliet | F |
Victor James Daley
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