The Coming By-and-by Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBCC DEDE FGFGHIHIFGFG| Sad is that woman's lot who year by year | A |
| Sees one by one her beauties disappear | A |
| As Time grown weary of her heart drawn sighs | B |
| Impatiently begins to dim her eyes | B |
| Herself compelled in life's uncertain gloamings | B |
| To wreathe her wrinkled brow with well saved combings | B |
| Reduced with rouge lipsalve and pearly grey | C |
| To make up for lost time as best she may | C |
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| Silvered is the raven hair | D |
| Spreading is the parting straight | E |
| Mottled the complexion fair | D |
| Halting is the youthful gait | E |
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| Hollow is the laughter free | F |
| Spectacled the limpid eye | G |
| Little will be left of me | F |
| In the coming by and by | G |
| Fading is the taper waist | H |
| Shapeless grows the shapely limb | I |
| And although securely laced | H |
| Spreading is the figure trim | I |
| Stouter than I used to be | F |
| Still more corpulent grow I | G |
| There will be too much of me | F |
| In the coming by and by | G |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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