The Aged Patriarch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFG HHII FFJJ FFKL| Of life's past woes the fading trace | A |
| Hath given that aged patriarch's face | A |
| Expression holy deep resign'd | B |
| The calm sublimity of mind | B |
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| Years o'er his snowy head have pass'd | C |
| And left him of his race the last | C |
| Alone on earth but yet his mien | D |
| Is bright with majesty serene | D |
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| And those high hopes whose guiding star | E |
| Shines from eternal words afar | E |
| Have with that light illumed his eye | F |
| Whose fount is immortality | G |
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| And o'er his features pour'd a ray | H |
| Of glory not to pass away | H |
| He seems a being who hath known | I |
| Communion with his God alone | I |
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| On earth by nought but pity's tie | F |
| Detain'd a moment from on high | F |
| One to sublimer worlds allied | J |
| One from all passions purified | J |
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| E'en now half mingled with the sky | F |
| And all prepared oh not to die | F |
| But like the prophet to aspire | K |
| To Heaven's triumphal car of fire | L |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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