The Gift Of Play Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDD BEEFFDD GHHIIJDKD LLBEEDD| Some have the gift of song and some possess the gift of silver speech | A |
| Some have the gift of leadership and some the ways of life can teach | A |
| And fame and wealth reward their friends in jewels are their splendors | B |
| told | C |
| But in good time their favorites grow very faint and gray and old | C |
| But there are men who laugh at time and hold the cruel years at bay | D |
| They romp through life forever young because they have the gift of play | D |
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| They walk with children hand in hand through daisy fields and orchards | B |
| fair | E |
| Nor all the dignity of age and power and pomp can follow there | E |
| They've kept the magic charm of youth beneath the wrinkled robe of Time | F |
| And there's no friendly apple tree that they have grown too old to climb | F |
| They have not let their boyhood die they can be children for the day | D |
| They have not bartered for success and all its praise the gift of play | D |
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| They think and talk in terms of youth with love of life their eyes are | G |
| bright | H |
| No rheumatism of the soul has robbed them of the world's delight | H |
| They laugh and sing their way along and join in pleasures when they can | I |
| And in their glad philosophy they hold that mirth becomes a man | I |
| They spend no strength in growing old What if their brows be crowned | J |
| with gray | D |
| The spirits in their breasts are young They still possess the gift of | K |
| play | D |
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| The richest men of life are not the ones who rise to wealth and fame | L |
| Not the great sages old and wise and grave of face and bent of frame | L |
| But the glad spirits tall and straight who 'spite of time and all its | B |
| care | E |
| Have kept the power to laugh and sing and in youth's fellowship to share | E |
| They that can walk with boys and be a boy among them blithe and gay | D |
| Defy the withering blasts of Age because they have the gift of play | D |
Edgar Albert Guest
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