Golden Bells Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D E F G H I J K| When I was almost forty | A |
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| I had a daughter whose name was Golden Bells | B |
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| Now it is just a year since she was born | C |
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| She is learning to sit and cannot yet talk | D |
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| Ashamed to find that I have not a sage s heart | E |
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| Henceforward I am tied to things outside myself | F |
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| My only reward the pleasure I am getting now | G |
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| If I am spared the grief of her dying young | H |
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| Then I shall have the trouble of getting her married | I |
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| My plan for retiring and going back to the hills | J |
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| Must now be postponed for fifteen years | K |
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