The Winter Soldier: The Dead Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGHIIJJKKLLMM| When I grow old they'll come to me and say | A |
| Did you then know him in that distant day | A |
| Did you speak with him touch his hand observe | B |
| The proud eyes' fire soft voice and light lips' curve | B |
| And I shall answer This man was my friend | C |
| Call to my memory add improve amend | C |
| And count up all the meetings that we had | D |
| And note his good and touch upon his bad | D |
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| When I grow older and more garrulous | E |
| I shall discourse on the dead poet thus | E |
| I said to him he answered unto me | F |
| He dined with me one night in Trinity | F |
| I supped with him in King's Ah pitiful | G |
| The twisted memories of an ancient fool | H |
| And sweet the silence of a young man dead | I |
| Now far in Lemnos sleeps that golden head | I |
| Unchanged serene for ever young and strong | J |
| Lifted above the chances that belong | J |
| To us who live for he shall not grow old | K |
| And only of his youth there shall be told | K |
| Magical stories true and wondrous tales | L |
| As of a god whose virtue never fails | L |
| Whose limbs shall never waste eyes never fall | M |
| And whose clear brain shall not be dimmed at all | M |
Edward Shanks
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