The Past Was Goodly Once Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CD EF GG| The Past was goodly once and yet when all is said | A |
| The best of it we know is that it's done and dead | A |
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| Dwindled and faded quite perished beyond recall | B |
| Nothing is left at last of what one time was all | B |
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| Coming back like a ghost staring and lingering on | C |
| Never a word it speaks but proves it dead and gone | D |
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| Duty and work and joy these things it cannot give | E |
| And the Present is life and life is good to live | F |
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| Let it lie where it fell far from the living sun | G |
| The Past that goodly once is gone and dead and done | G |
William Ernest Henley
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