Youth And Age Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACADDCACAEFEFGG ABABHIJKLKMHHNMCCCCO O APAPHPPQQRR| Verse a breeze 'mid blossoms straying | A |
| Where Hope clung feeding like a bee | B |
| Both were mine Life went a maying | A |
| With Nature Hope and Poesy | C |
| When I was young | A |
| When I was young Ah woeful When | D |
| Ah for the change 'twixt Now and Then | D |
| This breathing house not built with hands | C |
| This body that does me grievous wrong | A |
| O'er aery cliffs and glittering sands | C |
| How lightly then it flashed along | A |
| Like those trim skiffs unknown of yore | E |
| On winding lakes and rivers wide | F |
| That ask no aid of sail or oar | E |
| That fear no spite of wind or tide | F |
| Nought cared this body for wind or weather | G |
| When Youth and I lived in't together | G |
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| Flowers are lovely Love is flower like | A |
| Friendship is a sheltering tree | B |
| O the joys that came down shower like | A |
| Of Friendship Love and Liberty | B |
| Ere I was old | H |
| Ere I was old Ah woeful Ere | I |
| Which tells me Youth's no longer here | J |
| O Youth for years so many and sweet | K |
| 'Tis known that Thou and I were one | L |
| I'll think it but a fond conceit | K |
| It cannot be that Thou art gone | M |
| Thy vesper bell hath not yet tolled | H |
| And thou wert aye a masker bold | H |
| What strange disguise hast now put on | N |
| To make believe that thou art gone | M |
| I see these locks in silvery slips | C |
| This drooping gait this altered size | C |
| But Springtide blossoms on thy lips | C |
| And tears take sunshine from thine eyes | C |
| Life is but Thought so think I will | O |
| That Youth and I are housemates still | O |
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| Dew drops are the gems of morning | A |
| But the tears of mournful eve | P |
| Where no hope is life's a warning | A |
| That only serves to make us grieve | P |
| When we are old | H |
| That only serves to make us grieve | P |
| With oft and tedious taking leave | P |
| Like some poor nigh related guest | Q |
| That may not rudely be dismist | Q |
| Yet hath out stayed his welcome while | R |
| And tells the jest without the smile | R |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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