Growing Old Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEFE AGAG HEIE JEJE| Little by little the year grows old | A |
| The red leaves drop from the maple boughs | B |
| The sun grows dim and the winds blow cold | A |
| Down from the distant arctic seas | C |
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| Out of the skies the soft light dies | D |
| And the shadows of autumn come creeping over | E |
| And the bee and the bird are no longer heard | F |
| In grove or meadow or field of clover | E |
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| Little by little our lives grow old | A |
| Our faces no longer are fair to see | G |
| For gray creeps into the curls of gold | A |
| And the red fades out of the cheeks ah me | G |
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| And the birds that sang till our heart strings rang | H |
| With strains of hope and joy and pleasure | E |
| Have flown away and our hearts today | I |
| Hear only the weird wind's solemn measure | E |
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| Youth and summer and beauty and bloom | J |
| Droop and die in the autumn weather | E |
| But up from the gloom of the winter's tomb | J |
| They shall rise in God's good time together | E |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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