The Voice Of Age Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE CCCCFFGH IJCCCCKK CCCCCCCC| She'd look upon us if she could | A |
| As hard as Rhadamanthus would | A |
| Yet one may see who sees her face | B |
| Her crown of silver and of lace | B |
| Her mystical serene address | C |
| Of age alloyed with loveliness | C |
| That she would not annihilate | D |
| The frailest of things animate | E |
| - | |
| She has opinions of our ways | C |
| And if we're not all mad she says | C |
| If our ways are not wholly worse | C |
| Than others for not being hers | C |
| There might somehow be found a few | F |
| Less insane things for us to do | F |
| And we might have a little heed | G |
| Of what Belshazzar couldn't read | H |
| - | |
| She feels with all our furniture | I |
| Room yet for something more secure | J |
| Than our self kindled aureoles | C |
| To guide our poor forgotten souls | C |
| But when we have explained that grace | C |
| Dwells now in doing for the race | C |
| She nods as if she were relieved | K |
| Almost as if she were deceived | K |
| - | |
| She frowns at much of what she hears | C |
| And shakes her head and has her fears | C |
| Though none may know by any chance | C |
| What rose leaf ashes of romance | C |
| Are faintly stirred by later days | C |
| That would be well enough she says | C |
| If only people were more wise | C |
| And grown up children used their eyes | C |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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