To A Youth Who Wooed A Woman Older Than Himself Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCACACABAB| Friend woo me not so earnestly | A |
| Vain is thy prayer | B |
| Nay if in truth thou lovest me | A |
| Hereafter spare | B |
| My wearied ears a suit denied | C |
| Go choose for thee a younger bride | C |
| Not I will brook to live with thee | A |
| An old wife to a young man tied | C |
| Doomed as the years fleet by to see | A |
| A spouse who gazes hungry eyed | C |
| On such as she can never be | A |
| The young and fair | B |
| And waits to enshroud her clay with glee | A |
| And graveward bear | B |
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