The Age Of Ink Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHH IIJJKKLL MMNNOOP QRPPSST| Swiftly the changes come Each day | A |
| Sees some lost beauty blown away | A |
| And some new touch of lovely grace | B |
| Come into life to take its place | B |
| The little babe that once we had | C |
| One morning woke a roguish lad | C |
| The babe that we had put to bed | D |
| Out of our arms and lives had fled | D |
| - | |
| Frocks vanished from our castle then | E |
| Ne'er to be worn or seen again | E |
| And in his knickerbocker pride | F |
| He boasted pockets at each side | F |
| And stored them deep with various things | G |
| Stones tops and jacks and colored strings | G |
| Then for a time we claimed the joy | H |
| Of calling him our little boy | H |
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| Brief was the reign of such a spell | I |
| One morning sounded out a bell | I |
| With tears I saw her brown eyes swim | J |
| And knew that it was calling him | J |
| Time the harsh master of us all | K |
| Was bidding him to heed his call | K |
| This shadow fell across life's pool | L |
| Our boy was on his way to school | L |
| - | |
| Our little boy And still we dreamed | M |
| For such a little boy he seemed | M |
| And yesterday with eyes aglow | N |
| Like one who has just come to know | N |
| Some great and unexpected bliss | O |
| He bounded in announcing this | O |
| 'Oh Dad Oh Ma Say what d'you think | P |
| This year we're going to write with ink ' | - |
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| Here was a change I'd not foreseen | Q |
| Another step from what had been | R |
| I paused a little while to think | P |
| About this older age of ink | P |
| What follows this great step thought I | S |
| What next shall come as the time goes by | S |
| And something said 'His pathway leads | T |
| Unto the day he'll write with deeds ' | - |
Edgar Albert Guest
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