The Old Tune - Thirty-sixth Variation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FEFE GHGH IJIJ KJKJ LILI| This shred of song you bid me bring | A |
| Is snatched from fancy's embers | B |
| Ah when the lips forget to sing | A |
| The faithful heart remembers | B |
| - | |
| Too swift the wings of envious Time | C |
| To wait for dallying phrases | D |
| Or woven strands of labored rhyme | C |
| To thread their cunning mazes | E |
| - | |
| A word a sigh and lo how plain | F |
| Its magic breath discloses | E |
| Our life's long vista through a lane | F |
| Of threescore summers' roses | E |
| - | |
| One language years alone can teach | G |
| Its roots are young affections | H |
| That feel their way to simplest speech | G |
| Through silent recollections | H |
| - | |
| That tongue is ours How few the words | I |
| We need to know a brother | J |
| As simple are the notes of birds | I |
| Yet well they know each other | J |
| - | |
| This freezing month of ice and snow | K |
| That brings our lives together | J |
| Lends to our year a living glow | K |
| That warms its wintry weather | J |
| - | |
| So let us meet as eve draws nigh | L |
| And life matures and mellows | I |
| Till Nature whispers with a sigh | L |
| Good night my dear old fellows | I |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about The Old Tune - Thirty-sixth Variation poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Best Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes