They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate:
I think they have no portion in us after
We pass the gate.
They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.
1896
Regular
Romanticism
2022
Death & Loss
Faith & Hope
Anaphora
a figure of speech in which words repeat at the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences
End Rhyme
when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same
Metaphor
a comparison between two unrelated things through a shared characteristic
Polysyndeton
the repetition of conjunctions frequently and in close proximity in a sentence
Quatrain
A stanza made of four lines.