Old Photographs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GBGB FEHE FFHF IJKJ GFLF| Old lady put your glasses on | A |
| With polished lenses mounting golden | B |
| And once again look slowly through | C |
| The album olden | B |
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| How the old portraits take you back | D |
| To friends who once would 'round you gather | E |
| All scattered now like frosted leaves | F |
| In blustering weather | E |
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| Why who is this the bright coquette | G |
| Her eyes with Love's bright arrows laden | B |
| Poor Nell she's living single yet | G |
| An ancient maiden | B |
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| And this the fragile poetess | F |
| Whose high soul yearnings nought can smother | E |
| She's stouter far than I am now | H |
| A kind grandmother | E |
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| Who is this girl with flowing curls | F |
| Who on the golden future muses | F |
| What splendid hair she had and now | H |
| A 'front' she uses | F |
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| And this Why if it's not my own | I |
| And did I really e'er resemble | J |
| That bright young creature Take the book | K |
| My old hands tremble | J |
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| It seems that only yesterday | G |
| We all were young ah how time passes | F |
| Old lady put the album down | L |
| And wipe your glasses | F |
George Augustus Baker, Jr.
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