The Return Of Youth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MNMNOPOP QKQKRSRS| My friend thou sorrowest for thy golden prime | A |
| For thy fair youthful years too swift of flight | B |
| Thou musest with wet eyes upon the time | A |
| Of cheerful hopes that filled the world with light | B |
| Years when thy heart was bold thy hand was strong | C |
| And quick the thought that moved thy tongue to speak | D |
| And willing faith was thine and scorn of wrong | C |
| Summoned the sudden crimson to thy cheek | D |
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| Thou lookest forward on the coming days | E |
| Shuddering to feel their shadow o'er thee creep | F |
| A path thick set with changes and decays | E |
| Slopes downward to the place of common sleep | F |
| And they who walked with thee in life's first stage | G |
| Leave one by one thy side and waiting near | H |
| Thou seest the sad companions of thy age | G |
| Dull love of rest and weariness and fear | H |
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| Yet grieve thou not nor think thy youth is gone | I |
| Nor deem that glorious season e'er could die | J |
| Thy pleasant youth a little while withdrawn | I |
| Waits on the horizon of a brighter sky | J |
| Waits like the morn that folds her wing and hides | K |
| Till the slow stars bring back her dawning hour | L |
| Waits like the vanished spring that slumbering bides | K |
| Her own sweet time to waken bud and flower | L |
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| There shall he welcome thee when thou shalt stand | M |
| On his bright morning hills with smiles more sweet | N |
| Than when at first he took thee by the hand | M |
| Through the fair earth to lead thy tender feet | N |
| He shall bring back but brighter broader still | O |
| Life's early glory to thine eyes again | P |
| Shall clothe thy spirit with new strength and fill | O |
| Thy leaping heart with warmer love than then | P |
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| Hast thou not glimpses in the twilight here | Q |
| Of mountains where immortal morn prevails | K |
| Comes there not through the silence to thine ear | Q |
| A gentle rustling of the morning gales | K |
| A murmur wafted from that glorious shore | R |
| Of streams that water banks for ever fair | S |
| And voices of the loved ones gone before | R |
| More musical in that celestial air | S |
William Cullen Bryant
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