Experience Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCADE FFGGHHIITHE world was made when a man was born | A |
He must taste for himself the forbidden springs | B |
He can never take warning from old fashion'd things | B |
He must fight as a boy he must drink as a youth | C |
Of the friend of his soul he must laugh to scorn | A |
The hints of deceit in a woman's eyes | D |
They are clear as the wells of Paradise | E |
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And so he goes on till the world grows old | F |
Till his toung has grown cautious his heart has grown cold | F |
Till the smile leaves his mouth till the ring leaves his laugh | G |
And he shirks the bright headache you ask him to quaff | G |
He grows formal with men and with women polite | H |
And distrustful of both when they're out of his sight | H |
Then he eats for his palate and drinks for his head | I |
And loves for his pleasure and 'tis time he was dead | I |
John Boyle O'reilly
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