Retrospection Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACAACDEEDFF| I turn these leaves with thronging thoughts and say | A |
| Alas how many friends of youth are dead | B |
| How many visions of fair hope have fled | B |
| Since first my Muse we met So speeds away | A |
| Life and its shadows yet we sit and sing | C |
| Stretched in the noontide bower as if the day | A |
| Declined not and we yet might trill our lay | A |
| Beneath the pleasant morning's purple wing | C |
| That fans us while aloft the gay clouds shine | D |
| Oh ere the coming of the long cold night | E |
| Religion may we bless thy purer light | E |
| That still shall warm us when the tints decline | D |
| O'er earth's dim hemisphere and sad we gaze | F |
| On the vain visions of our passing days | F |
William Lisle Bowles
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