Affirmation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGEHEIEJKLEMNOI PEQAA| To grow old is to lose everything | A |
| Aging everybody knows it | B |
| Even when we are young | C |
| we glimpse it sometimes and nod our heads | D |
| when a grandfather dies | E |
| Then we row for years on the midsummer | F |
| pond ignorant and content But a marriage | G |
| that began without harm scatters | E |
| into debris on the shore | H |
| and a friend from school drops | E |
| cold on a rocky strand | I |
| If a new love carries us | E |
| past middle age our wife will die | J |
| at her strongest and most beautiful | K |
| New women come and go All go | L |
| The pretty lover who announces | E |
| that she is temporary | M |
| is temporary The bold woman | N |
| middle aged against our old age | O |
| sinks under an anxiety she cannot withstand | I |
| Another friend of decades estranges himself | P |
| in words that pollute thirty years | E |
| Let us stifle under mud at the pond's edge | Q |
| and affirm that it is fitting | A |
| and delicious to lose everything | A |
Donald Hall
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