Sarabande On Attaining The Age Of Seventy-seven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEDE FGFG HIJI KLKM NONO| The harbingers are come See see their mark | A |
| White is their colour and behold my head | B |
| George Herbert | C |
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| Long gone the smoke and pepper childhood smell | D |
| Of the smoldering immolation of the year | E |
| Leaf strewn in scattered grandeur where it fell | D |
| Golden and poxed with frost tarnished and sere | E |
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| And I myself have whitened in the weathers | F |
| Of heaped up Januaries as they bequeath | G |
| The annual rings and wrongs that wring my withers | F |
| Sober my thoughts and undermine my teeth | G |
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| The dramatis personae of our lives | H |
| Dwindle and wizen familiar boyhood shames | I |
| The tribulations one somehow survives | J |
| Rise smokily from propitiatory flames | I |
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| Of our forgetfulness until we find | K |
| It becomes strangely easy to forgive | L |
| Even ourselves with this clouding of the mind | K |
| This cinerous blur and smudge in which we live | M |
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| A turn a glide a quarter turn and bow | N |
| The stately dance advances these are airs | O |
| Bone deep and numbing as I should know by now | N |
| Diminishing the cast like musical chairs | O |
Anthony Evan Hecht
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