A Portrait Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFFGG| Thoughtful in youth but not austere in age | A |
| Calm but not cold and cheerful though a sage | A |
| Too true to flatter and too kind to sneer | B |
| And only just when seemingly severe | B |
| So gently blending courtesy and art | C |
| That wisdom s lips seemed borrowing friendship s heart | C |
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| Taught by the sorrows that his age had known | D |
| In others trials to forget his own | D |
| As hour by hour his lengthened day declined | E |
| A sweeter radiance lingered o er his mind | E |
| Cold were the lips that spoke his early praise | F |
| And hushed the voices of his morning days | F |
| Yet the same accents dwelt on every tongue | G |
| And love renewing kept him ever young | G |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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