To F. W. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBA AABC AABBAC DDEED DDEF DDEEDF GHHG GHGH GHHGG

Let us be drunk and for a while forgetA
Forget and ceasing even from regretA
Live without reason and despite of rhymeB
As in a dream preposterous and sublimeB
Where place and hour and means for once are metA
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Where is the use of effort Love and debtA
And disappointment have us in a netA
Let us break out and taste the morning primeB
Let us be drunkC
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In vain our little hour we strut and fretA
And mouth our wretched parts as for a betA
We cannot please the tragicaster TimeB
To gain the crystal sphere the silver dimeB
Where Sympathy sits dimpling on us yetA
Let us be drunkC
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When you are old and I am passed awayD
Passed and your face your golden face is grayD
I think whate'er the end this dream of mineE
Comforting you a friendly star will shineE
Down the dim slope where still you stumble and strayD
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So may it be that so dead YesterdayD
No sad eyed ghost but generous and gayD
May serve you memories like almighty wineE
When you are oldF
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Dear Heart it shall be so Under the swayD
Of death the past's enormous disarrayD
Lies hushed and dark Yet though there come no signE
Live on well pleased immortal and divineE
Love shall still tend you as God's angels mayD
When you are oldF
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Beside the idle summer seaG
And in the vacant summer daysH
Light Love came fluting down the waysH
Where you were loitering with meG
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Who has not welcomed even as weG
That jocund minstrel and his laysH
Beside the idle summer seaG
And in the vacant summer daysH
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We listened we were fancy freeG
And lo in terror and amazeH
We stood alone alone at gazeH
With an implacable memoryG
Beside the idle summer seaG

William Ernest Henley



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