The Great Grandfather Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNOL PQRQ STUT VWXY

My father's grandfather lives stillA
His age is fourscore years and tenB
He looks a monument of timeC
The agedest of aged menB
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Though years lie on him like a loadD
A happier man you will not seeE
Than he whenever he can getF
His great grandchildren on his kneeE
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When we our parents have displeasedG
He stands between us as a screenH
By him our good deeds in the sunI
Our bad ones in the shade are seenH
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His love's a line that's long drawn outJ
Yet lasteth firm unto the endK
His heart is oak yet unto usL
It like the gentlest reed can bendK
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A fighting soldier he has beenM
Yet by his manners you would guessN
That he his whole long life had spentO
In scenes of country quietnessL
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His talk is all of things long pastP
For modern facts no pleasure yieldQ
Of the famed year of forty fiveR
Of William and Culloden's fieldQ
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The deeds of this eventful ageS
Which princes from their thrones have hurledT
Can no more interest wake in himU
Than stories of another worldT
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When I his length of days revolveV
How like a strong tree he hath stoodW
It brings into my mind almostX
Those patriarchs old before the floodY

Charles Lamb



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