Growing Gray. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A AABCCB DDAAAA AAEFFE GGHBBH IIJAAK| On a l' ge de son coeur A d'Houdetot | A |
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| A little more toward the light | A |
| Me miserable Here's one that's white | A |
| And one that's turning | B |
| Adieu to song and salad days | C |
| My Muse let's go at once to Jay's | C |
| And order mourning | B |
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| We must reform our rhymes my Dear | D |
| Renounce the gay for the severe | D |
| Be grave not witty | A |
| We have no more the right to find | A |
| That Pyrrha's hair is neatly twined | A |
| That Chloe's pretty | A |
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| Young Love's for us a farce that's played | A |
| Light canzonet and serenade | A |
| No more may tempt us | E |
| Gray hairs but ill accord with dreams | F |
| From aught but sour didactic themes | F |
| Our years exempt us | E |
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| Indeed you really fancy so | G |
| You think for one white streak we grow | G |
| At once satiric | H |
| A fiddlestick Each hair's a string | B |
| To which our ancient Muse shall sing | B |
| A younger lyric | H |
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| The heart's still sound Shall cakes and ale | I |
| Grow rare to youth because we rail | I |
| At schoolboy dishes | J |
| Perish the thought 'Tis ours to chant | A |
| When neither Time nor Tide can grant | A |
| Belief with wishes | K |
Henry Austin Dobson
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