Youth And Manhood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ HKHK LFLF MNMN OPQP RHRH STST UEUE VWVW XNXN| Another year a short one if it flow | A |
| Like that just past | B |
| And I shall stand if years can make me so | A |
| A man at last | B |
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| Yet while the hours permit me I would pause | C |
| And contemplate | D |
| The lot whereto unalterable laws | C |
| Have bound my fate | D |
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| Yet from the starry regions of my youth | E |
| The empyreal height | F |
| Where dreams are happiness and feeling truth | E |
| And life delight | F |
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| From that ethereal and serene abode | G |
| My soul would gaze | H |
| Downward upon the wide and winding road | G |
| Where manhood plays | H |
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| Plays with the baubles and the gauds of earth | I |
| Wealth power and fame | J |
| Nor knows that in the twelvemonth after birth | I |
| He did the same | J |
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| Where the descent begins through long defiles | H |
| I see them wind | K |
| And some are looking down with hopeful smiles | H |
| And some are blind | K |
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| And farther on a gay and glorious green | L |
| Dazzles the sight | F |
| While noble forms are moving o'er the scene | L |
| Like things of light | F |
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| Towers temples domes of perfect symmetry | M |
| Rise broad and high | N |
| With pinnacles among the clouds ah me | M |
| None touch the sky | N |
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| None pierce the pure and lofty atmosphere | O |
| Which I breathe now | P |
| And the strong spirits that inhabit there | Q |
| Live God sees how | P |
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| Sick of the very treasure which they heap | R |
| Their tearless eyes | H |
| Sealed ever in a heaven forgetting sleep | R |
| Whose dreams are lies | H |
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| And so a motley unattractive throng | S |
| They toil and plod | T |
| Dead to the holy ecstasies of song | S |
| To love and God | T |
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| Dear God if that I may not keep through life | U |
| My trust my truth | E |
| And that I must in yonder endless strife | U |
| Lose faith with youth | E |
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| If the same toil which indurates the hand | V |
| Must steel the heart | W |
| Till in the wonders of the ideal land | V |
| It have no part | W |
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| Oh take me hence I would no longer stay | X |
| Beneath the sky | N |
| Give me to chant one pure and deathless lay | X |
| And let me die | N |
Henry Timrod
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