The Old Man's Wish Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCC DDEECCC FFGGCCC HHIICCC CCJJCCC| If I live to be old for I find I go down | A |
| Let this be my fate In a country town | A |
| May I have a warm house with a stone at the gate | B |
| And a cleanly young girl to rub my bald pate | B |
| May I govern my passion with an absolute sway | C |
| And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away | C |
| Without gout or stone by a gentle decay | C |
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| Near a shady grove and a murmuring brook | D |
| With the ocean at distance whereupon I may look | D |
| With a spacious plain without hedge or stile | E |
| And an easy pad nag to ride out a mile | E |
| May I govern my passion with an absolute sway | C |
| And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away | C |
| Without gout or stone by a gentle decay | C |
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| With Horace and Petrarch and two or three more | F |
| Of the best wits that reign'd in the ages before | F |
| With roast mutton rather than ven'son or veal | G |
| And clean though coarse linen at every meal | G |
| May I govern my passion with an absolute sway | C |
| And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away | C |
| Without gout or stone by a gentle decay | C |
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| With a pudding on Sundays with stout humming liquor | H |
| And remnants of Latin to welcome the vicar | H |
| With Monte Fiascone or Burgundy wine | I |
| To drink the King's health as oft as I dine | I |
| May I govern my passion with an absolute sway | C |
| And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away | C |
| Without gout or stone by a gentle decay | C |
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| With a courage undaunted may I face my last day | C |
| And when I am dead may the better sort say | C |
| In the morning when sober in the evening when mellow | J |
| He's gone and left not behind him his fellow | J |
| May I govern my passion with an absolute sway | C |
| And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away | C |
| Without gout or stone by a gentle decay | C |
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