Youth And Age Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACADDCACAEFEFGG ABABHIJKLKMHHNMCCCCO O APAPHPPQQRR

Verse a breeze 'mid blossoms strayingA
Where Hope clung feeding like a beeB
Both were mine Life went a mayingA
With Nature Hope and PoesyC
When I was youngA
When I was young Ah woeful WhenD
Ah for the change 'twixt Now and ThenD
This breathing house not built with handsC
This body that does me grievous wrongA
O'er aery cliffs and glittering sandsC
How lightly then it flashed alongA
Like those trim skiffs unknown of yoreE
On winding lakes and rivers wideF
That ask no aid of sail or oarE
That fear no spite of wind or tideF
Nought cared this body for wind or weatherG
When Youth and I lived in't togetherG
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Flowers are lovely Love is flower likeA
Friendship is a sheltering treeB
O the joys that came down shower likeA
Of Friendship Love and LibertyB
Ere I was oldH
Ere I was old Ah woeful EreI
Which tells me Youth's no longer hereJ
O Youth for years so many and sweetK
'Tis known that Thou and I were oneL
I'll think it but a fond conceitK
It cannot be that Thou art goneM
Thy vesper bell hath not yet tolledH
And thou wert aye a masker boldH
What strange disguise hast now put onN
To make believe that thou art goneM
I see these locks in silvery slipsC
This drooping gait this altered sizeC
But Springtide blossoms on thy lipsC
And tears take sunshine from thine eyesC
Life is but Thought so think I willO
That Youth and I are housemates stillO
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Dew drops are the gems of morningA
But the tears of mournful eveP
Where no hope is life's a warningA
That only serves to make us grieveP
When we are oldH
That only serves to make us grieveP
With oft and tedious taking leaveP
Like some poor nigh related guestQ
That may not rudely be dismistQ
Yet hath out stayed his welcome whileR
And tells the jest without the smileR

Samuel Taylor Coleridge



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