Poet George Parsons Lathrop

George Parsons Lathrop

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Youth To The Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK LLMM C

To Oliver Wendell HolmesA
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Strange spell of youth for age and age for youthB
Affinity between two forms of truthB
As if the dawn and sunset watched each otherC
Like and unlike as children of one motherC
And wondering at the likeness Ardent eyesD
Of young men see the prophecy ariseD
Of what their lives shall be when all is toldE
And in the far off glow of years called oldE
Those other eyes look back to catch a traceF
Of what was once their own unshadowed graceF
But here in our dear poet both are blendedG
Ripe age begun yet golden youth not endedG
Even as his song the willowy scent of springH
Doth blend with autumn's tender mellowingH
And mixes praise with satire tears with funI
In strains that ever delicately runI
So musical and wise page after pageJ
The sage a minstrel grows the bard a sageJ
The dew of youth fills yet his late sprung flowersK
And day break glory haunts his evening hoursK
Ah such a life prefigures its own moralL
That first Last Leaf is now a leaf of laurelL
Which smiling not but trembling at the touchM
Youth gives back to the hand that gave so muchM
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Evening Of DecemberC

George Parsons Lathrop



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