At Thirty-five Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFBDBD GHGHIDID JKJKLDLD MNMNODOD| Three score and ten the psalmist saith | A |
| And half my course is well nigh run | B |
| I've had my flout at dusty death | A |
| I've had my whack of feast and fun | B |
| I've mocked at those who prate and preach | C |
| I've laughed with any man alive | D |
| But now with sobered heart I reach | C |
| The Great Divide of Thirty five | D |
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| And looking back I must confess | E |
| I've little cause to feel elate | F |
| I've played the mummer more or less | E |
| I fumbled fortune flouted fate | F |
| I've vastly dreamed and little done | B |
| I've idly watched my brothers strive | D |
| Oh I have loitered in the sun | B |
| By primrose paths to Thirty five | D |
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| And those who matched me in the race | G |
| Well some are out and trampled down | H |
| The others jog with sober pace | G |
| Yet one wins delicate renown | H |
| O midnight feast and famished dawn | I |
| O gay hard life with hope alive | D |
| O golden youth forever gone | I |
| How sweet you seem at Thirty five | D |
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| Each of our lives is just a book | J |
| As absolute as Holy Writ | K |
| We humbly read and may not look | J |
| Ahead nor change one word of it | K |
| And here are joys and here are pains | L |
| And here we fail and here we thrive | D |
| O wondrous volume what remains | L |
| When we reach chapter Thirty five | D |
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| The very best I dare to hope | M |
| Ere Fate writes Finis to the tome | N |
| A wiser head a wider scope | M |
| And for the gipsy heart a home | N |
| A songful home with loved ones near | O |
| With joy with sunshine all alive | D |
| Watch me grow younger every year | O |
| Old Age thy name is Thirty five | D |
Robert Service
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