My First Gray Hair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB C DEFE GGHH IJKK LLBB| One day amid brown tresses there gleamed a silvery thread | A |
| Life pages past and present I wonderingly then read | A |
| I saw a blithsome maiden a child serenely fair | B |
| A woman heavey laden now lifts her first gray hair | B |
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| CHORUS | C |
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| O silvery strand thou soft kiss of time | D |
| The beauties of youth are now past are now past | E |
| For evening of life are pleasures unknown | F |
| 'Tis love only love that will last that will last | E |
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| Upon the shadowy threshold the small gray strand did lay | G |
| And told the old old story of ever changing day | G |
| Within the mystic portals of life's near ending stream | H |
| I stood and pondered vaguely if death were but a dream | H |
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| I viewed the snow white message and thought of bygone years | I |
| The hopes the waging conflicts joys mingled oft' with tears | J |
| Tell me thou thing of pearl hue what will the future greet | K |
| Will paths be strewn with roses or thistles tear my feet | K |
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| A whisper floated near me in accents sweet and low | L |
| My child what'er thy portion if tares for thee will grow | L |
| Thy soul keep pure and stainless a crown thy brow shall wear | B |
| 'Twill shine with whitest tresses that once was nut brown hair | B |
Mary Alice Walton
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