Veteran Sirens Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFH IFIF JKJK| The ghost of Ninon would be sorry now | A |
| To laugh at them were she to see them here | B |
| So brave and so alert for learning how | A |
| To fence with reason for another year | C |
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| Age offers a far comelier diadem | D |
| Than theirs but anguish has no eye for grace | E |
| When time's malicious mercy cautions them | D |
| To think a while of number and of space | E |
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| The burning hope the worn expectancy | F |
| The martyred humor and the maimed allure | G |
| Cry out for time to end his levity | F |
| And age to soften its investiture | H |
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| But they though others fade and are still fair | I |
| Defy their fairness and are unsubdued | F |
| Although they suffer they may not forswear | I |
| The patient ardor of the unpursued | F |
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| Poor flesh to fight the calendar so long | J |
| Poor vanity so quaint and yet so brave | K |
| Poor folly so deceived and yet so strong | J |
| So far from Ninon and so near the grave | K |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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