An Old Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFAG HIJKAL M| Looking upon this tree with its quaint pretension | A |
| Of holding the earth a leveret in its claws | B |
| Or marking the texture of its living bark | C |
| A grey sea wrinkled by the winds of years | D |
| I understand whence this man's body comes | E |
| In veins and fibres the bare boughs of bone | F |
| The trellised thicket where the heart that robin | A |
| Greets with a song the seasons of the blood | G |
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| But where in meadow or mountain shall I match | H |
| The individual accent of the speech | I |
| That is the ear's familiar To what sun attribute | J |
| The honeyed warmness of his smile | K |
| To which of the deciduous brood is german | A |
| The angel peeping from the latticed eye | L |
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| Submitted by Andrew Mayers | M |
Ronald Stuart Thomas
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