Growing Old Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED AFCFGHC IJIJKLML JAAAKDKD CNONAFPF QAAAIRCR GSKSAHAH| Is it parting with the roundness | A |
| Of the smoothly moulded cheek | B |
| Is it losing from the dimples | A |
| Half the flashing joy they speak | B |
| Is it fading of the lustre | C |
| From the wavy golden hair | D |
| Is it finding on the forehead | E |
| Graven lines of thought and care | D |
| - | |
| Is it dropping as the rose leaves | A |
| Drop their sweetness overblown | F |
| Household names that once were dearer | C |
| More familiar than our own | F |
| Is it meeting on the pathway | G |
| Faces strange and glances cold | H |
| While the soul with moan and shiver | C |
| Whispers sadly 'Growing old ' | - |
| - | |
| Is it frowning at the folly | I |
| Of the ardent hopes of youth | J |
| Is it cynic melancholy | I |
| At the rarity of truth | J |
| Is it disbelief in loving | K |
| Selfish hate or miser's greed | L |
| Then such blight of Nature's noblest | M |
| Is a 'growing old' indeed | L |
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| But the silver thread that shineth | J |
| Whitely in the thinning tress | A |
| And the pallor where the bloom was | A |
| Need not tell of bitterness | A |
| And the brow's more earnest writing | K |
| Where it once was marble fair | D |
| May be but the spirit's tracing | K |
| Of the peace of answered prayer | D |
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| If the smile has gone in deeper | C |
| And the tears more quickly start | N |
| Both together meet in music | O |
| Low and tender in the heart | N |
| And in others' joy and gladness | A |
| When the life can find its own | F |
| Surely angels learn to listen | P |
| To the sweetness of the tone | F |
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| Nothing lost of all we planted | Q |
| In the time of budding leaves | A |
| Only some things bound in bundles | A |
| And set by our precious sheaves | A |
| Only treasure kept in safety | I |
| Out of reach and out of rust | R |
| Till we clasp it grown the richer | C |
| Through the glory of our trust | R |
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| On the gradual sloping pathway | G |
| As the passing years decline | S |
| Gleams a golden love light falling | K |
| Far from upper heights divine | S |
| And the shadows from that brightness | A |
| Wrap them softly in their fold | H |
| Who unto celestial whiteness | A |
| Walk by way of growing old | H |
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