The Fountain Of Youth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCDDEDE FBFBGHGH IJIJKLMN OPOPQDQD RLRLNRNR SKSKTUTU| READ AT THE MEETING OF THE HARVARD ALUMNI | A |
| ASSOCIATION JUNE | B |
| - | |
| THE fount the Spaniard sought in vain | C |
| Through all the land of flowers | D |
| Leaps glittering from the sandy plain | C |
| Our classic grove embowers | D |
| Here youth unchanging blooms and smiles | D |
| Here dwells eternal spring | E |
| And warm from Hope's elysian isles | D |
| The winds their perfume bring | E |
| - | |
| Here every leaf is in the bud | F |
| Each singing throat in tune | B |
| And bright o'er evening's silver flood | F |
| Shines the young crescent moon | B |
| What wonder Age forgets his staff | G |
| And lays his glasses down | H |
| And gray haired grandsires look and laugh | G |
| As when their locks were brown | H |
| - | |
| With ears grown dull and eyes grown dim | I |
| They greet the joyous day | J |
| That calls them to the fountain's brim | I |
| To wash their years away | J |
| What change has clothed the ancient sire | K |
| In sudden youth For to | L |
| The Judge the Doctor and the Squire | M |
| Are Jack and Bill and Joe | N |
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| And be his titles what they will | O |
| In spite of manhood's claim | P |
| The graybeard is a school boy still | O |
| And loves his school boy name | P |
| It calms the ruler's stormy breast | Q |
| Whom hurrying care pursues | D |
| And brings a sense of peace and rest | Q |
| Like slippers after shoes | D |
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| And what are all the prizes won | R |
| To youth's enchanted view | L |
| And what is all the man has done | R |
| To what the boy may do | L |
| O blessed fount whose waters flow | N |
| Alike for sire and son | R |
| That melts our winter's frost and snow | N |
| And makes all ages one | R |
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| I pledge the sparkling fountain's tide | S |
| That flings its golden shower | K |
| With age to fill and youth to guide | S |
| Still fresh in morning flower | K |
| Flow on with ever widening stream | T |
| In ever brightening morn | U |
| Our story's pride our future's dream | T |
| The hope of times unborn | U |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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