The Widower's Lament Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHIH| Age yellows my leaf with a daily decline | A |
| And nature turns sick with decay | B |
| Short is the thread on life's spool that is mine | A |
| And few are my wishes to stay | B |
| The bud that has seen but the sun of an hour | C |
| When storms overtake it may sigh | D |
| But fruit that has weather'd life's sunshine and shower | C |
| Drops easy and gladly to die | D |
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| The prop of my age and the balm of my pain | E |
| With the length of life's years has declin'd | F |
| And like the last sheep of the flock on the plain | E |
| She leaves me uneasy behind | F |
| I think of the days when our hearts they were one | G |
| And she of my youth was the pride | H |
| I look for the prop of my age but it's gone | I |
| And I long to drop down by her side | H |
John Clare
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