When We Are Old And These Rejoicing Veins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGG| When we are old and these rejoicing veins | A |
| Are frosty channels to a muted stream | B |
| And out of all our burning their remains | A |
| No feeblest spark to fire us even in dream | B |
| This be our solace that it was not said | C |
| When we were young and warm and in our prime | D |
| Upon our couch we lay as lie the dead | C |
| Sleeping away the unreturning time | D |
| O sweet O heavy lidded O my love | E |
| When morning strikes her spear upon the land | F |
| And we must rise and arm us and reprove | E |
| The insolent daylight with a steady hand | F |
| Be not discountenanced if the knowing know | G |
| We rose from rapture but an hour ago | G |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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