Years Ago Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EDED FGGG DHDH DIDI EJEJ GKGK LGLG DGDG MDMD NONO CGCG LPLP QGQG DDDD EGEG CDCD RGRG STST GGGG SQSQ EDED CGCG

THE old dead flowers of bygone summersA
The old sweet songs that are no more sungB
The rose red dawns that were welcome comersA
When you and I and the world were youngB
Are lost O love to the light for everC
And seen no more of the moon or sunD
For seas divide and the seasons severC
And twain are we that of old were oneD
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O fair lost love when the ship went sailingE
Across the seas in the years agoneD
And seaward set were the eyes unquailingE
And landward looking the faces wanD
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My heart went back as a dove goes homewardF
With wings aweary to seek its nestG
While fierce sea eagles are flying foamwardG
And storm winds whiten the surge s crestG
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And far inland for a farewell pardonD
Flew on and on while the ship went SouthH
The rose was red in the red rose gardenD
And red the rose of your laughing mouthH
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But no word came on the wind in tokenD
Of love that lasts till the end and soI
My heart returned to me bruised and brokenD
From you my love of the long agoI
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The green fields seemed in the distance growingE
To silken squares on a weaver s loomJ
As oversea came the land wind blowingE
The faint sweet scent of the clover bloomJ
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A rarer odour to me it carriedG
In subtle delicate way to tellK
Of you ere you and the world were marriedG
The lilac odour you loved so wellK
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Again I saw you beneath the blooms ofL
Those lilac trees in the garden oldG
Ah me each tree is a mark for tombs ofL
Dead dreams and memories still and coldG
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And Death comes there with his breath scent ladenD
And gathering gently the blossoms shedG
In guise of Autumn the brown browed maidenD
With your and my dead buries his deadG
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O fairer far than the fair idealM
Of him who imaged the foam born QueenD
In foam white marble a dream made realM
To me were you in those years I weenD
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Your lips were redder than night shade berriesN
That burn in borders of hedgerowed lanesO
And sweeter far than the sweet wild cherriesN
The June sun flushes with crimson stainsO
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And gray your eyes as a gray dove s wings wereC
A gray soft shadowing deeps profoundG
Where thoughts that reached to the heart of things wereC
And love lay dreaming though seeming drownedG
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Twin tulip breasted like her the tread ofL
Whose feet made music in Paphos fairP
The world to me was not worth a thread ofL
Your brown ambrosial braided hairP
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Mayhap you loved me at one time trulyQ
And I was jealous and you were proudG
But mine the love of the king in ThuleQ
Till death and yours sleeps well in shroudG
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So night came down like a sombre ravenD
And southward ever the ship was borneD
Till glad green fields and lessening havenD
Grew faint and faded like ghosts at mornD
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As fields of Heaven eternal bloomingE
Those flowerful fields of my mother landG
In midnight visions are still perfumingE
All wild waste places and seas of sandG
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And still in seasons of storm and thunderC
In strange lands under your land and mineD
And though our ways have been wide asunderC
In calm and tempest and shade and shineD
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Your face I see as I saw the last timeR
As one borne space ward on wings of lightG
With eyes turned back to a sight of past timeR
Beholds for ever that self same sightG
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But scorn has died on your lips and through youS
Shines out star bright an immortal graceT
As though God then to His heaven drew youS
And sent an angel to take your placeT
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I plucked one rose from the tree you cherishedG
My heart s blood ebbing has kept it redG
And all my hopes with its scent have perishedG
Why mourn them now are the dead not deadG
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And yet God knows as this rose I kiss youS
May feel the kisses across the seaQ
And soul to soul for the larger issueS
Your soul may stand with the soul of meQ
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Unknown to you for the strings of BeingE
Are not so easily snapped or tornD
And we may journey with eyes unseeingE
On paths that meet in the years unbornD
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Farewell dear heart Warm sighs may severC
Ripe lips of love like a rose leaf curledG
But you remain unto me for everC
The one fair woman in all the worldG

Victor James Daley



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