The Lover Envies An Old Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAAB CCBDBDEEFFBGGGHIIJHK KKLLBB| I envy the feeble old man | A |
| Dozing there in the sun | B |
| When all you can do is done | B |
| And life is a shattered plan | A |
| What is there better than | A |
| Dozing in the sun | B |
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| I could grow very still | C |
| Like an old stone on a hill | C |
| And content me with the one | B |
| Thing that is ever kind | D |
| The tender sun | B |
| I could grow deaf and blind | D |
| And never hear her voice | E |
| Nor think I could rejoice | E |
| With her in any place | F |
| And I could forget her face | F |
| And love only the sun | B |
| Because when we are tired | G |
| Very very tired | G |
| And cannot again be fired | G |
| By any hope | H |
| The sun is so comforting | I |
| A little bird under the wing | I |
| Of its mother is not so warm | J |
| Give me only the scope | H |
| Of an old chair | K |
| Out in the air | K |
| Let me rest there | K |
| Moving not | L |
| Loving not | L |
| Only dozing my days till my days be done | B |
| Under the sun | B |
Shaemas O'sheel
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