Middle-age Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIJI KDKD LMLM NONP QRQR CSCS| The sins of Youth are hardly sins | A |
| So frank they are and free | B |
| 'T is but when Middle age begins | A |
| We need morality | B |
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| Ah pause and weigh this bitter truth | C |
| That Middle age grown cold | D |
| No comprehension has of Youth | C |
| No pity for the Old | D |
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| Youth with his half divine mistakes | E |
| She never can forgive | F |
| So much she hates his charm which makes | E |
| Worth while the life we live | G |
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| She scorns Old Age whose tolerance | H |
| And calm well balanced mind | I |
| Knowing how crime is born of chance | J |
| Can pardon all mankind | I |
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| Yet she alas has all the power | K |
| Of strength and place and gold | D |
| Man's every act through every hour | K |
| Is by her laws controlled | D |
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| All things she grasps with sordid hands | L |
| And weighs in tarnished scales | M |
| She neither feels nor understands | L |
| And yet her will prevails | M |
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| Cold blooded vice and careful sin | N |
| Gold lust blind selfishness | O |
| The shortest cheapest way to win | N |
| Some worse than cheap success | P |
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| Such are her attributes and aims | Q |
| Yet meekly we obey | R |
| While she to guide and order claims | Q |
| All issues of the day | R |
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| You seek for honour friendship truth | C |
| Let Middle age be banned | S |
| Go for warm hearted acts to Youth | C |
| To Age to understand | S |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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