Youth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF EF| I am not sure if I knew the truth | A |
| What his case or crime might be | B |
| I only know that he pleaded Youth | A |
| A beautiful golden plea | B |
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| Youth with its sunlit passionate eyes | C |
| Its roseate velvet skin | D |
| A plea to cancel a thousand lies | C |
| Or a thousand nights of sin | D |
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| The men who judged him were old and grey | E |
| Their eyes and their senses dim | F |
| He brought the light of a warm Spring day | E |
| To the Court house bare and grim | F |
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| Could he plead guilty in a lovelier way | E |
| His judges acquitted him | F |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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