The Old Tune Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA B CDCD EFEG HGHG IJIJ KLKL MLML NKN| A | |
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| THIRTY SIXTH VARIATION | B |
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| THIS shred of song you bid me bring | C |
| Is snatched from fancy's embers | D |
| Ah when the lips forget to sing | C |
| The faithful heart remembers | D |
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| Too swift the wings of envious Time | E |
| To wait for dallying phrases | F |
| Or woven strands of labored rhyme | E |
| To thread their cunning mazes | G |
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| A word a sigh and lo how plain | H |
| Its magic breath discloses | G |
| Our life's long vista through a lane | H |
| Of threescore summers' roses | G |
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| One language years alone can teach | I |
| Its roots are young affections | J |
| That feel their way to simplest speech | I |
| Through silent recollections | J |
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| That tongue is ours How few the words | K |
| We need to know a brother | L |
| As simple are the notes of birds | K |
| Yet well they know each other | L |
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| This freezing month of ice and snow | M |
| That brings our lives together | L |
| Lends to our year a living glow | M |
| That warms its wintry weather | L |
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| So let us meet as eve draws nigh | N |
| And life matures and mellows | K |
| Till Nature whispers with a sigh | N |
| 'Good night my dear old fellows ' | - |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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