The Days Go By Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAACCDDCC EEFFEE FFGGFF HHIIHH JKLLMJ NNGGNN| THE DAYS go by the days go by | A |
| Sadly and wearily to die | A |
| Each with its burden of small cares | B |
| Each with its sad gift of gray hairs | B |
| For those who sit like me and sigh | A |
| The days go by The days go by | A |
| Ah nevermore on shining plumes | C |
| Shedding a rain of rare perfumes | C |
| That men call memories they are borne | D |
| As in life s many visioned morn | D |
| When Love sang in the myrtle blooms | C |
| Ah nevermore on shining plumes | C |
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| Where is my life Where is my life | E |
| The morning of my youth was rife | E |
| With promise of a golden day | F |
| Where have my hopes gone Where are they | F |
| The passion and the splendid strife | E |
| Where is my life Where is my life | E |
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| My thoughts take hue from this wild day | F |
| And like the skies are ashen gray | F |
| The sharp rain falling constantly | G |
| Lashes with whips of steel the sea | G |
| What words are left for Hope to say | F |
| My thoughts take hue from this wild day | F |
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| I dreamt my life is all a dream | H |
| That I should sing a song supreme | H |
| To gladden all sad eyes that weep | I |
| And take the Harp to Time and sweep | I |
| Its chords to some eternal theme | H |
| I dreamt my life is all a dream | H |
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| The world is very old and wan | J |
| The sun that once so brightly shone | K |
| Is now as pale as the pale moon | L |
| I would that Death came swift and soon | L |
| For all my dreams are dead and gone | M |
| The world is very old and wan | J |
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| The world is young the world is strong | N |
| But I in dreams have wandered long | N |
| God lives What can Death do to me | G |
| The sun is shining on the sea | G |
| Yet shall I sing my splendid song | N |
| The world is young the world is strong | N |
Victor James Daley
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