To F. W. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBA AABC AABBAC DDEED DDEF DDEEDF GHHG GHGH GHHGGLet us be drunk and for a while forget | A |
Forget and ceasing even from regret | A |
Live without reason and despite of rhyme | B |
As in a dream preposterous and sublime | B |
Where place and hour and means for once are met | A |
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Where is the use of effort Love and debt | A |
And disappointment have us in a net | A |
Let us break out and taste the morning prime | B |
Let us be drunk | C |
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In vain our little hour we strut and fret | A |
And mouth our wretched parts as for a bet | A |
We cannot please the tragicaster Time | B |
To gain the crystal sphere the silver dime | B |
Where Sympathy sits dimpling on us yet | A |
Let us be drunk | C |
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When you are old and I am passed away | D |
Passed and your face your golden face is gray | D |
I think whate'er the end this dream of mine | E |
Comforting you a friendly star will shine | E |
Down the dim slope where still you stumble and stray | D |
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So may it be that so dead Yesterday | D |
No sad eyed ghost but generous and gay | D |
May serve you memories like almighty wine | E |
When you are old | F |
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Dear Heart it shall be so Under the sway | D |
Of death the past's enormous disarray | D |
Lies hushed and dark Yet though there come no sign | E |
Live on well pleased immortal and divine | E |
Love shall still tend you as God's angels may | D |
When you are old | F |
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Beside the idle summer sea | G |
And in the vacant summer days | H |
Light Love came fluting down the ways | H |
Where you were loitering with me | G |
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Who has not welcomed even as we | G |
That jocund minstrel and his lays | H |
Beside the idle summer sea | G |
And in the vacant summer days | H |
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We listened we were fancy free | G |
And lo in terror and amaze | H |
We stood alone alone at gaze | H |
With an implacable memory | G |
Beside the idle summer sea | G |
William Ernest Henley
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