An Old Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKJK| How young I am Ah heaven this curse of youth | A |
| Doth mock me from my mirror with great eyes | B |
| And pulsing veins repeat the unwelcome truth | A |
| That I must live though hope within me dies | B |
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| So young and yet I have had all of life | C |
| Why men have lived to see a hundred years | D |
| Who have not known the rapture joy and strife | C |
| Of my brief youth its passion and its tears | E |
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| Oh what are years A ripe three score and ten | F |
| Hold often less of life in its best sense | G |
| Than just a twelvemonth lived by other men | F |
| Whose high strung souls are ardent and intense | G |
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| But having seen all depths and scaled all heights | H |
| Having a heart love thrilled and sorrow wrung | I |
| Knowing all pains all pleasures all delights | H |
| Now I would die but cannot being young | I |
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| Nothing is left me but supreme despair | J |
| The bitter dregs that tell of wasted wine | K |
| Come furrowed brow dull eye and frosted hair | J |
| Companions fit for this old heart of mine | K |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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