To A Poet That Died Young Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEE FGHHII JJKKAALL MMEENN| Minstrel what have you to do | A |
| With this man that after you | A |
| Sharing not your happy fate | B |
| Sat as England's Laureate | C |
| Vainly in these iron days | D |
| Strives the poet in your praise | D |
| Minstrel by whose singing side | E |
| Beauty walked until you died | E |
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| Still though none should hark again | F |
| Drones the blue fly in the pane | G |
| Thickly crusts the blackest moss | H |
| Blows the rose its musk across | H |
| Floats the boat that is forgot | I |
| None the less to Camelot | I |
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| Many a bard's untimely death | J |
| Lends unto his verses breath | J |
| Here's a song was never sung | K |
| Growing old is dying young | K |
| Minstrel what is this to you | A |
| That a man you never knew | A |
| When your grave was far and green | L |
| Sat and gossipped with a queen | L |
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| Thalia knows how rare a thing | M |
| Is it to grow old and sing | M |
| When a brown and tepid tide | E |
| Closes in on every side | E |
| Who shall say if Shelley's gold | N |
| Had withstood it to grow old | N |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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