The Wisdom Of Eld Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDCEDE| We spend our lives in learning pilotage | A |
| And grow good steersmen when the vessel's crank | B |
| Gap toothed he spake and with a tottering shank | B |
| Sidled to gain the sunny bench of Age | A |
| It is the sentence which completes that stage | A |
| A testament of wisdom reading blank | B |
| The seniors of the race on their last plank | B |
| Pass mumbling it as nature's final page | A |
| These bent by such experience are the band | C |
| Who captain young enthusiasts to maintain | D |
| What things we view and Earth's decree withstand | C |
| Lest dreaded Change long dammed by dull decay | E |
| Should bring the world a vessel steered by brain | D |
| And ancients musical at close of day | E |
George Meredith
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