To A Beautiful Old Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFEF GHGIJKJL MNMOPQPQ RSRSTUTU| To the Sweet Memory of Lucy Hinton | A |
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| Say not She once was fair because the years | B |
| Have changed her beauty to a holier thing | C |
| No girl hath such a lovely face as hers | D |
| That hoards the sweets of many a vanished spring | C |
| Stealing from Time what Time in vain would steal | E |
| Culling perfections as each came to flower | F |
| Bearing on each rare lineament the seal | E |
| Of being exquisite from hour to hour | F |
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| These eyes have dwelt with beauty night and morn | G |
| Guarding the soul within from every stain | H |
| No baseness since the first day she was born | G |
| Behind those star lit brows could access again | I |
| Bathed in the light that streamed from all things fair | J |
| Turning to spirit each delicate door of sense | K |
| And with all lovely shapes of earth and air | J |
| Feeding her wisdom and her innocence | L |
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| Life that whate'er it gives takes more away | M |
| From those that all would take and little give | N |
| Enriched her treasury from day to day | M |
| Making each hour more wonderful to live | O |
| And touch by touch with hands of unseen skill | P |
| Transformed the simple beauty of a girl | Q |
| Finding it lovely left it lovelier still | P |
| A mystic masterpiece of rose and pearl | Q |
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| Her grief and joy alike have turned to gold | R |
| And tears and laughter mingled to one end | S |
| With alchemy of living manifold | R |
| If Life so wrought shall Death be less a friend | S |
| Nay earth to heaven shall give the fairest face | T |
| Dimming the haughty beauties of the sky | U |
| Would I could see her softly take her place | T |
| Sweeping each splendour with her queenly eye | U |
Richard Le Gallienne
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