The Olden Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDDA AAEFFEFFA AAFGGFFFA AAHIJHFFFA| O well I mind the olden time | A |
| The sweet sweet olden time | A |
| When I did long for eve all day | B |
| And watch'd upon the new mown grass | C |
| The shadows slowly eastward pass | C |
| And o'er the meadows glide away | B |
| Till I could steal with heart elate | D |
| Unto the little cottage gate | D |
| In the sweet sweet olden time | A |
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| O well I mind the olden time | A |
| The sweet sweet olden time | A |
| How all the night I long'd for morn | E |
| And bless'd the thrush whose early note | F |
| The silver chords of silence smote | F |
| With greetings to the day new born | E |
| For then again with heart elate | F |
| I hoped to meet her at the gate | F |
| In the sweet sweet olden time | A |
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| But now hath pass'd the olden time | A |
| That sweet sweet olden time | A |
| And there is neither morn nor night | F |
| That bears a freight of hopes and fears | G |
| To bless my soul in coming years | G |
| With any harvest of delight | F |
| For never more with heart elate | F |
| Can I behold her at the gate | F |
| As in the sweet sweet olden time | A |
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| For the sake of that dear olden time | A |
| That sweet sweet olden time | A |
| I look forth ever sadly still | H |
| And hope the time may come again | I |
| When Life hath borne its meed of pain | J |
| And stoutly struggled up the hill | H |
| When I once more with heart elate | F |
| May meet her at another gate | F |
| Beyond the blighting breath of fate | F |
| That chill'd the sweet sweet olden time | A |
Walter R. Cassels
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