The Great Grandfather Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNOL PQRQ STUT VWXYMy 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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