When! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDDE FFFCGGGE HHHCIIIE JJJCKKKE LLLCMNNE| WHEN I am young again I'll hoard my bliss | A |
| Nor deem that inexhaustible it is | B |
| Remembering old age comes after this | A |
| Joy grows to pain | C |
| Nor waste one moment of youth's rose sweet hours | D |
| Nor trample one of all its countless flowers | D |
| But drink the summer sun and soft spring showers | D |
| When I am young again | E |
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| I will be wise with wisdom dearly won | F |
| By those who through life's wood have nearly run | F |
| Learn what to do and what to leave undone | F |
| Risk or refrain | C |
| I will not seek into my mouth to take | G |
| The bitter apple of the acrid lake | G |
| But at clear fountains all my thirsts will slake | G |
| When I am young again | E |
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| I will not brush the bloom to reach the core | H |
| Remembering how it chanced with me before | H |
| And bloom once lost returns not any more | H |
| Hard cores remain | C |
| I will fence round with prudence and secure | I |
| A lasting bloom whose freshness shall endure | I |
| Oh I will guard my peach of youth be sure | I |
| When I am young again | E |
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| When I am young again I'll spend no breath | J |
| On bitter words the heart remembereth | J |
| When bitterness is swallowed up by Death | J |
| Holding sole reign | C |
| I'll love so well that if they pass to sleep | K |
| Before me I shall have no watch to keep | K |
| Over their tears only my tears to weep | K |
| When I am young again | E |
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| I will not lightly joy nor idly grieve | L |
| Nor for a heaven itself one soul deceive | L |
| Nor will I be deceived vainly believe | L |
| Nor love in vain | C |
| Come back lost youth Ah Fate that one gift give | M |
| Then I will show that I have learned to live | N |
| Youth shall be wise and two and two make five | N |
| When I am young again | E |
Edith Nesbit
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