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 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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