Accepted Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBD EFEGFG HGHGHG IJIKJK| You are no longer young | A |
| Nor are you very old | B |
| There are homes where those belong | C |
| You know you do not fit | D |
| When you observe the cold | B |
| Stares of those who sit | D |
| - | |
| In bath chairs or the park | E |
| A stick then at their side | F |
| Or find yourself in the dark | E |
| And see the lovers who | G |
| In love and in their stride | F |
| Don't even notice you | G |
| - | |
| This is a time to begin | H |
| Your life It could be new | G |
| The sheer not fitting in | H |
| With the old who envy you | G |
| And the young who want to win | H |
| Not knowing false from true | G |
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| Means you have liberty | I |
| Denied to their extremes | J |
| At last now you can be | I |
| What the old cannot recall | K |
| And the young long for in dreams | J |
| Yet still include them all | K |
Elizabeth Jennings
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