When Age Comes On Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCBAACA ABEFEBAAEA G ABHH IIHH JJHH| When Age comes on | A |
| 'The deepening dusk is where the dawn | B |
| Once glittered splendid and the dew | C |
| In honey drips from red rose lips | D |
| Was kissed away by me and you | C |
| And now across the frosty lawn | B |
| Black foot prints trail and Age comes on | A |
| And Age comes on | A |
| And biting wild winds whistle through | C |
| Our tattered hopes and Age comes on | A |
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| When Age comes on | A |
| O tide of raptures long withdrawn | B |
| Flow back in summer floods and fling | E |
| Here at our feet our childhood sweet | F |
| And all the songs we used to sing | E |
| Old loves old friends all dead and gone | B |
| Our old faith lost and Age comes on | A |
| And Age comes on | A |
| Poor hearts have we not anything | E |
| But longings left when Age comes on | A |
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| ENVOY | G |
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| Just as of old The world rolls on and on | A |
| The day dies into night night into dawn | B |
| Dawn into dusk through centuries untold | H |
| Just as of old | H |
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| Time loiters not The river ever flows | I |
| Its brink or white with blossoms or with snows | I |
| Its tide or warm with Spring or Winter cold | H |
| Just as of old | H |
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| Lo where is the beginning where the end | J |
| Of living loving longing Listen friend | J |
| God answers with a silence of pure gold | H |
| Just as of old | H |
James Whitcomb Riley
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