The Lonely Old Fellow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGDDFG| The roses are bedded for winter the tulips are planted for spring | A |
| The robins and martins have left us there are only the sparrows to sing | A |
| The garden seems solemnly silent awaiting its blankets of snow | B |
| And I feel like a lonely old fellow with nowhere to turn or to go | B |
| All summer I've hovered about them all summer they've nodded at me | C |
| I've wandered and waited among them the first pink of blossom to see | C |
| I've known them and loved and caressed them and now all their splendor has fled | D |
| And the harsh winds of winter all tell me the friends of my garden are dead | D |
| I'm a lonely old fellow that's certain All winter with nothing to do | E |
| But sit by the window recalling the days when my skies were all blue | E |
| But my heart is not given to sorrow and never my lips shall complain | F |
| For winter shall pass and the sunshine shall give me my roses again | G |
| And so for the friends that have vanished the friends that they tell me are dead | D |
| Who have traveled the road to God's Acres and sleep where the willows are spread | D |
| They have left me a lonely old fellow to sit here and dream by the pane | F |
| But I know like the friends of my garden we shall all meet together again | G |
Edgar Albert Guest
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