Of The Last Verses In The Book Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABB CDAAEE AAFGHH| When we for age could neither read nor write | A |
| The subject made us able to indite | A |
| The soul with nobler resolutions deckt | A |
| The body stooping does herself erect | A |
| No mortal parts are requisite to raise | B |
| Her that unbodied can her Maker praise | B |
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| The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er | C |
| So calm are we when passions are no more | D |
| For then we know how vain it was to boast | A |
| Of fleeting things so certain to be lost | A |
| Clouds of affection from our younger eyes | E |
| Conceal that emptiness which age descries | E |
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| The soul's dark cottage batter'd and decay'd | A |
| Lets in new light through chinks that time has made | A |
| Stronger by weakness wiser men become | F |
| As they draw near to their eternal home | G |
| Leaving the old both worlds at once they view | H |
| That stand upon the threshold of the new | H |
Edmund Waller
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