An Old Idea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKF LMDB| STREAM of my life dull placid river flow | A |
| I have no fear of the ingulfing seas | B |
| Neither I look before me nor behind | C |
| But lying mute with wave dipped hand float on | D |
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| It was not always so My brethren see | E |
| This oar stained trembling palm It keeps the sign | F |
| Of youth's mad wrestling with the waves that drift | G |
| Immutably eternally along | H |
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| I would have had them flow through fields and flowers | I |
| Giving and taking freshness perfume joy | J |
| It winds through here Be silent O my soul | K |
| The finger of God's wisdom drew its line | F |
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| So I lean back and look up to the stars | L |
| And count the ripples circling to the shore | M |
| And watch the solemn river rolling on | D |
| Until it widen to the open seas | B |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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