The Great Grandfather Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNOL PQRQ STUT VWXY| My father's grandfather lives still | A |
| His age is fourscore years and ten | B |
| He looks a monument of time | C |
| The agedest of aged men | B |
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| Though years lie on him like a load | D |
| A happier man you will not see | E |
| Than he whenever he can get | F |
| His great grandchildren on his knee | E |
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| When we our parents have displeased | G |
| He stands between us as a screen | H |
| By him our good deeds in the sun | I |
| Our bad ones in the shade are seen | H |
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| His love's a line that's long drawn out | J |
| Yet lasteth firm unto the end | K |
| His heart is oak yet unto us | L |
| It like the gentlest reed can bend | K |
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| A fighting soldier he has been | M |
| Yet by his manners you would guess | N |
| That he his whole long life had spent | O |
| In scenes of country quietness | L |
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| His talk is all of things long past | P |
| For modern facts no pleasure yield | Q |
| Of the famed year of forty five | R |
| Of William and Culloden's field | Q |
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| The deeds of this eventful age | S |
| Which princes from their thrones have hurled | T |
| Can no more interest wake in him | U |
| Than stories of another world | T |
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| When I his length of days revolve | V |
| How like a strong tree he hath stood | W |
| It brings into my mind almost | X |
| Those patriarchs old before the flood | Y |
Charles Lamb
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