A Prayer For Old Age Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABA C DEDED C FGHGF I JKJKJ I LMLML I NONON I PQPQP I RSRSR| These are the things which I would ask of Time | A |
| When I am old | B |
| Never to feel in soul doubt's spiritual rime | A |
| The heart grow cold | B |
| With self but in me that which warms my time | A |
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| II | C |
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| Never to feel the drouth the dearth that kills | D |
| Before one dies | E |
| Of mind full flowering on thought's fertile hills | D |
| But in my skies | E |
| The falcon Fancy that no season kills | D |
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| III | C |
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| Never to see the shadow at my door | F |
| Nor fear its fall | G |
| But wait serenely whether rich or poor | H |
| Nor care at all | G |
| So Love sits with me at my open door | F |
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| IV | I |
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| Never to have a dream I dreamed destroyed | J |
| And towards the last | K |
| Live o'er again all that I have enjoyed | J |
| The happy Past | K |
| Through these the dreams no time has yet destroyed | J |
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| V | I |
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| Never to lose my love for lowly things | L |
| To feel the need | M |
| For simple beauty still each bird that sings | L |
| Each flower and weed | M |
| That looks its message of unguessed at things | L |
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| VI | I |
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| Never to lose my faith in Nature God | N |
| But still to find | O |
| Worship in trees religion in each sod | N |
| And in the wind | O |
| Sermons that breathe the universal God | N |
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| VII | I |
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| Never to age in mind much less in heart | P |
| But keep them young | Q |
| With song glad song that still shall have its part | P |
| Sung or unsung | Q |
| Within the inmost temple of my heart | P |
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| VIII | I |
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| That I may lose not all my trust in men | R |
| And through it grow | S |
| Nearer to Heaven and God and softly then | R |
| Meet Death and know | S |
| He has no terrors for my soul Amen | R |
Madison Julius Cawein
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