On Growing Old Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABCBCBDBDEE BFBFCCCCGHGHIJ| Be with me Beauty for the fire is dying | A |
| My dog and I are old too old for roving | A |
| Man whose young passion sets the spindrift flying | A |
| Is soon too lame to march too cold for loving | A |
| I take the book and gather to the fire | B |
| Turning old yellow leaves minute by minute | C |
| The clock ticks to my heart A withered wire | B |
| Moves a thiun ghost of music in the spinet | C |
| I cannot sail your seas I cannot wander | B |
| Your cornland nor your hill land nor your valleys | D |
| Ever again nore share the battle yonder | B |
| Where the young knight the broken squadron rallies | D |
| Only stay quiet while my mind remembers | E |
| The beauty of fire from the beauty of embers | E |
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| Beauty have pity for the strong have power | B |
| The rich their wealth the beautiful their grace | F |
| Summer of man its sunlight and its flower | B |
| Spring time of man all April in a face | F |
| Only as in the jostling in the Strand | C |
| Where the mob thrusts or loiters or is loud | C |
| The beggar with the saucer in his hand | C |
| Asks only a penny from the passing crowd | C |
| So from this glittering world with all its fashion | G |
| Its fire and play of men its stir its march | H |
| Let me have wisdom Beauty wisdom and passion | G |
| Bread to the soul rain when the summers parch | H |
| Give me but these and though the darkness close | I |
| Even the night will blossom as the rose | J |
John Masefield
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