How Old Is My Heart, How Old? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEF GHIJHKL| How old is my heart how old how old is my heart | A |
| and did I ever go forth with song when the morn was new | B |
| I seem to have trod on many ways I seem to have left | C |
| I know not how many homes and to leave each | D |
| was still to leave a portion of mine own heart | A |
| of my old heart whose life I had spent to make that home | E |
| and all I had was regret and a memory | F |
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| So I sit and muse in this wayside harbour and wait | G |
| till I hear the gathering cry of the ancient winds and again | H |
| I must up and out and leave the members of the hearth | I |
| to crumble silently into white ash and dust | J |
| and see the road stretch bare and pale before me again | H |
| my garment and my house shall be the enveloping winds | K |
| and my heart be fill'd wholly with their old pitiless cry | L |
Christopher John Brennan
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