In Tempore Senectutis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCBA ADADEEDA AFAFGGHA| When I am old | A |
| And sadly steal apart | B |
| Into the dark and cold | A |
| Friend of my heart | B |
| Remember if you can | C |
| Not him who lingers but that other man | C |
| Who loved and sang and had a beating heart | B |
| When I am old | A |
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| When I am old | A |
| And all Love's ancient fire | D |
| Be tremulous and cold | A |
| My soul's desire | D |
| Remember if you may | E |
| Nothing of you and me but yesterday | E |
| When heart on heart we bid the years conspire | D |
| To make us old | A |
| - | |
| When I am old | A |
| And every star above | F |
| Be pitiless and cold | A |
| My life's one love | F |
| Forbid me not to go | G |
| Remember nought of us but long ago | G |
| And not at last how love and pity strove | H |
| When I grew old | A |
Ernest Christopher Dowson
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