Old Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBB DEFGG HIIII JKLKB MNGOO PQRQF OFSFF BTITI UNIOO VOIOG NFRFB WLXL YZISTis a dull sight | A |
To see the year dying | B |
When winter winds | C |
Set the yellow wood sighing | B |
Sighing O sighing | B |
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When such a time cometh | D |
I do retire | E |
Into an old room | F |
Beside a bright fire | G |
O pile a bright fire | G |
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And there I sit | H |
Reading old things | I |
Of knights and lorn damsels | I |
While the wind sings | I |
O drearily sings | I |
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I never look out | J |
Nor attend to the blast | K |
For all to be seen | L |
Is the leaves falling fast | K |
Falling falling | B |
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But close at the hearth | M |
Like a cricket sit I | N |
Reading of summer | G |
And chivalry | O |
Gallant chivalry | O |
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Then with an old friend | P |
I talk of our youth | Q |
How 'twas gladsome but often | R |
Foolish forsooth | Q |
But gladsome gladsome | F |
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Or to get merry | O |
We sing some old rhyme | F |
That made the wood ring again | S |
In summer time | F |
Sweet summer time | F |
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Then go we smoking | B |
Silent and snug | T |
Naught passes between us | I |
Save a brown jug | T |
Sometimes | I |
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And sometimes a tear | U |
Will rise in each eye | N |
Seeing the two old friends | I |
So merrily | O |
So merrily | O |
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And ere to bed | V |
Go we go we | O |
Down on the ashes | I |
We kneel on the knee | O |
Praying together | G |
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Thus then live I | N |
Till 'mid all the gloom | F |
By Heaven the bold sun | R |
Is with me in the room | F |
Shining shining | B |
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Then the clouds part | W |
Swallows soaring between | L |
The spring is alive | X |
And the meadows are green | L |
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I jump up like mad | Y |
Break the old pipe in twain | Z |
And away to the meadows | I |
The meadows again | S |
Edward Fitzgerald
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