Youth And Age Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACADDCACAEFEFGG ABABHIJKLKMHHNMCCCCO O APAPHPPQQRRVerse 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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