Youth-s End Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCAA DDEECC D| I HAVE held my life too high | A |
| Spring and harvest love and laughter smile and sigh | A |
| I should have held it lightly like a young leaf rent in haste | B |
| From the willow in the waste | B |
| A moment in my fingers then it fluttered then it fled | C |
| A little flame of red | C |
| To the God beholding desert where the soundless years go by | A |
| I have held my life too high | A |
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| I have held my death too dear | D |
| Shame or honour peace or peril pride or fear | D |
| I should have held it softly as the little cloud that flies | E |
| When the heron takes the skies | E |
| I should have held it kindly as a passing whisper 'Friend | C |
| Here's the end | C |
| Here the silver cord is loosened and the bowl is broken here ' | - |
| But I held my death too dear | D |
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall
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