Youth And Age Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBCDAACC AAAEEFFGGCD HHHIIJJKKCC AAALLMMKKCCA| Dance on dance on we see we see | A |
| Youth goes alack and with it glee | A |
| A boy the old man ne'er can be | A |
| Maternal thirty scarce can find | B |
| The sweet sixteen long left behind | B |
| Old folks must toil and scrape and strain | C |
| That boys and girls may once again | D |
| Be that for them they cannot be | A |
| But which it gives them joy to see | A |
| Youth goes and glee but not in vain | C |
| Young folks if only you remain | C |
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| Dance on dance on 'tis joy to see | A |
| The dry red leaves on winter's tree | A |
| Can feel the new sap rising free | A |
| On on young folks so you survive | E |
| The dead themselves are still alive | E |
| The blood in dull parental veins | F |
| Long numbed a tingling life regains | F |
| Deep down in earth the tough old root | G |
| Is conscious still of flower and fruit | G |
| Spring goes and glee but were not vain | C |
| In you young folks they come again | D |
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| Dance on dance on we see we feel | H |
| Wind wind your waltzes wind and wheel | H |
| Our senses too with music reel | H |
| Nor let your pairs neglect to fill | I |
| The old ancestral scorned quadrille | I |
| Let hand the hand uplifted seek | J |
| And pleasure fly from cheek to cheek | J |
| Love too but gently nor astray | K |
| And yet deluder yet in play | K |
| Dance on youth goes but all's not vain | C |
| Young folks if only you remain | C |
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| Dance on dance on 'tis joy to see | A |
| We once were nimble e'en as ye | A |
| And danced to give the oldest glee | A |
| O wherefore add as we you too | L |
| Once gone your prime cannot renew | L |
| You too like us at last shall stand | M |
| To watch and not to join the band | M |
| Content some day a far off day | K |
| To your supplanters soft to say | K |
| Youth goes but goes not all in vain | C |
| Young folks so only you remain | C |
| Dance on dance on 'tis joy to see | A |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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