When I Was Still A Youthful Wight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BA BCC D ED EFF| WHEN I was still a youthful wight | A |
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| So full of enjoyment and merry | B |
| The painters used to assert in spite | A |
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| That my features were small yes very | B |
| Yet then full many a beauteous child | C |
| With true affection upon me smil'd | C |
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| Now as a greybeard I sit here in state | D |
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| By street and by lane held in awe sirs | E |
| And may be seen like old Frederick the Great | D |
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| On pipebowls on cups and on saucers | E |
| Yet the beauteous maidens they keep afar | F |
| Oh vision of youth Oh golden star | F |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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