An Old Man Muses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD AEA FGFG HIHIAAAA FJFJKGKG| Can it be I this Hindenburg deferring | A |
| To demagogues catch phrases lucky charms | B |
| And all this mummery about me stirring | A |
| Can it be I lord of high feats of arms | B |
| Smiling complancence on a rabble's blunders | C |
| Counting a mountebank amongst my peers | D |
| I who commanded with the voice of thunders | C |
| Ah what a role betrays me with the years | D |
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| Can it be I condoning cavallering | A |
| This sorry paint and tinsel paladin | E |
| This braggart upstart raging racketeering | A |
| Like some cheap western gangster 'muscling in ' | - |
| Apeing the arts in which I loomed a master | F |
| Acting with arms as children play with toys | G |
| Mouthing fierce phrases pregannt with disaster | F |
| To lure brief loyalty from brain sick boys | G |
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| Can it be I who saw the vision splendid | H |
| Shaping before these ageing eyes of mine | I |
| When half a world before my day had eneded | H |
| Hurtled its might against my stubborn Line | I |
| The Line of Hindenburg the natons raging | A |
| Before an avatar who reached the sky | A |
| And now A hapless figurehead fast ageing | A |
| The mighty Hindenburg Can this be I | A |
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| Strange trick of Fate And yet sometimes I wonder | F |
| While factions rage and puny tyrants bray | J |
| If victory might yet be snatched for blunder | F |
| Till gloriously dawned against The Day | J |
| If To what end Youth seeks in other fashion | K |
| It's destiny 'Tis world worn age that drools | G |
| Of glories gone Enough to veil compassion | K |
| With weary tolerance Poor dupes Poor fools | G |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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