Rhymes Of A Life-time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDDCCE| FROM the first gleam of morning to the gray | A |
| Of peaceful evening lo a life unrolled | B |
| In woven pictures all its changes told | B |
| Its lights its shadows every flitting ray | A |
| Till the long curtain falling dims the day | A |
| Steals from the dial's disk the sunlight's gold | B |
| And all the graven hours grow dark and cold | B |
| Where late the glowing blaze of noontide lay | A |
| Ah the warm blood runs wild in youthful veins | C |
| Let me no longer play with painted fire | D |
| New songs for new born days I would not tire | D |
| The listening ears that wait for fresher strains | C |
| In phrase new moulded new forged rhythmic chains | C |
| With plaintive measures from a worn out lyre | E |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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