Love And Age Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGDGD HIHIADAD CECEEDED GJGJKDKD LMLMCDCD NONOPDPD| I 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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