Changed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MHMHNONO PQPQJRJR| I know not why my soul is rack'd | A |
| Why I ne'er smile as was my wont | B |
| I only know that as a fact | A |
| I don't | B |
| I used to roam o'er glen and glade | C |
| Buoyant and blithe as other folk | D |
| And not unfrequently I made | C |
| A joke | D |
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| A minstrel's fire within me burn'd | E |
| I'd sing as one whose heart must break | F |
| Lay upon lay I nearly learn'd | E |
| To shake | F |
| All day I sang of love of fame | G |
| Of fights our fathers fought of yore | H |
| Until the thing almost became | G |
| A bore | H |
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| I cannot sing the old songs now | I |
| It is not that I deem then low | J |
| 'Tis that I can't remember how | I |
| They go | J |
| I could not range the hills till high | K |
| Above me stood the summer moon | L |
| And as to dancing I could fly | K |
| As soon | L |
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| The sports to which with boyish glee | M |
| I sprang erewhile attract no more | H |
| Although I am but sixty three | M |
| Or four | H |
| Nay worse than that I've seem'd of late | N |
| To shrink from happy boyhood boys | O |
| Have grown so noisy and I hate | N |
| A noise | O |
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| They fright me when the beech is green | P |
| By swarming up its stem for eggs | Q |
| They drive their horrid hoops between | P |
| My legs | Q |
| It's idle to repine I know | J |
| I'll tell you what I'll do instead | R |
| I'll drink my arrowroot and go | J |
| To bed | R |
Charles Stuart Calverley
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