Love And Age Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGDGD HIHIADAD CECEEDED GJGJKDKD LMLMCDCD NONOPDPDI play'd with you 'mid cowslips blowing | A |
When I was six and you were four | B |
When garlands weaving flower balls throwing | A |
Were pleasures soon to please no more | B |
Through groves and meads o'er grass and heather | C |
With little playmates to and fro | D |
We wander'd hand in hand together | C |
But that was sixty years ago | D |
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You grew a lovely roseate maiden | E |
And still our early love was strong | F |
Still with no care our days were laden | E |
They glided joyously along | F |
And I did love you very dearly | G |
How dearly words want power to show | D |
I thought your heart was touch'd as nearly | G |
But that was fifty years ago | D |
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Then other lovers came around you | H |
Your beauty grew from year to year | I |
And many a splendid circle found you | H |
The centre of its glimmering sphere | I |
I saw you then first vows forsaking | A |
On rank and wealth your hand bestow | D |
O then I thought my heart was breaking | A |
But that was forty years ago | D |
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And I lived on to wed another | C |
No cause she gave me to repine | E |
And when I heard you were a mother | C |
I did not wish the children mine | E |
My own young flock in fair progression | E |
Made up a pleasant Christmas row | D |
My joy in them was past expression | E |
But that was thirty years ago | D |
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You grew a matron plump and comely | G |
You dwelt in fashion's brightest blaze | J |
My earthly lot was far more homely | G |
But I too had my festal days | J |
No merrier eyes have ever glisten'd | K |
Around the hearth stone's wintry glow | D |
Than when my youngest child was christen'd | K |
But that was twenty years ago | D |
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Time pass'd My eldest girl was married | L |
And I am now a grandsire gray | M |
One pet of four years old I've carried | L |
Among the wild flower'd meads to play | M |
In our old fields of childish pleasure | C |
Where now as then the cowslips blow | D |
She fills her basket's ample measure | C |
And that is not ten years ago | D |
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But though first love's impassion'd blindness | N |
Has pass'd away in colder light | O |
I still have thought of you with kindness | N |
And shall do till our last good night | O |
The ever rolling silent hours | P |
Will bring a time we shall not know | D |
When our young days of gathering flowers | P |
Will be an hundred years ago | D |
Thomas Love Peacock
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