The Elder's Rebuke Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCDEFEGG CCCC HIHI CFCJ HKH CCCCCC| 'Listen When your hair like mine | A |
| Takes a tint of silver gray | B |
| When your eyes with dimmer shine | A |
| Watch life's bubbles float away | B |
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| When you young man have borne like me | C |
| The weary weight of sixty three | C |
| Then shall penance sore be paid | D |
| For those hours so wildly squandered | E |
| And the words that now fall dead | F |
| On your ear be deeply pondered | E |
| Pondered and approved at last | G |
| But their virtue will be past | G |
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| 'Glorious is the prize of Duty | C |
| Though she be 'a serious power' | C |
| Treacherous all the lures of Beauty | C |
| Thorny bud and poisonous flower | C |
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| 'Mirth is but a mad beguiling | H |
| Of the golden gifted time | I |
| Love a demon meteor wiling | H |
| Heedless feet to gulfs of crime | I |
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| 'Those who follow earthly pleasure | C |
| Heavenly knowledge will not lead | F |
| Wisdom hides from them her treasure | C |
| Virtue bids them evil speed | J |
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| 'Vainly may their hearts repenting | H |
| Seek for aid in future years | K |
| Wisdom scorned knows no relenting | H |
| Virtue is not won by fears ' | - |
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| Thus spake the ice blooded elder gray | C |
| The young man scoffed as he turned away | C |
| Turned to the call of a sweet lute's measure | C |
| Waked by the lightsome touch of pleasure | C |
| Had he ne'er met a gentler teacher | C |
| Woe had been wrought by that pitiless preacher | C |
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