The First Of May ( A Memory) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFG HIHJ KLKL MNMN LOLO PQPQ RSTS| THE WATERS make a music low | A |
| The river reeds | B |
| Are trembling to the tunes of long ago | A |
| Dead days and deeds | B |
| Become alive again as on | C |
| I float and float | D |
| Through shadows of the golden summers gone | E |
| And springs remote | D |
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| Above my head the trees bloom out | F |
| In white and red | G |
| Great blossoms that make glad the air about | F |
| And old suns shed | G |
| - | |
| Their rays athwart them Ah the light | H |
| Is bright and fair | I |
| No suns that shine upon me now are bright | H |
| As those suns were | J |
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| And gazing down into the stream | K |
| I see a face | L |
| As sweet as buds that blossom in a dream | K |
| Ere sorrows chase | L |
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| Fair dreams from men and send in lieu | M |
| Sad thoughts A wreath | N |
| Of blue bells binds the head a bluer blue | M |
| The eyes beneath | N |
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| This is my little Annie s face | L |
| My child sweetheart | O |
| Whom long ago I lost in that dark place | L |
| Where all lives part | O |
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| Beside me still I see her stand | P |
| Who is no more | Q |
| She walked with me through childhood hand in hand | P |
| But at the door | Q |
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| Of youth departed from me Fain | R |
| Was I that day | S |
| To go with her Ah sweetheart come again | T |
| This First of May | S |
Victor James Daley
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