The Old Man-s Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJKL MNOPQRSTUVWXYZA2B2C2 BKID2E2DF2F2G2WH2LI2 ZFBWJ2I2I K2L2M2F2F2I2| HERNANI Act III | A |
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| O mockery that this halting love | B |
| That fills the heart so full of flame and transport | C |
| Forgets the body while it fires the soul | D |
| If but a youthful shepherd cross my path | E |
| He singing on the way I sadly musing | F |
| He in his fields I in my darksome alleys | G |
| Then my heart murmurs 'O ye mouldering towers | H |
| Thou olden ducal dungeon O how gladly | I |
| Would I exchange ye and my fields and forests | J |
| Mine ancient name mine ancient rank my ruins | K |
| My ancestors with whom I soon shall lie | L |
| For his thatched cottage and his youthful brow ' | - |
| His hair is black his eyes shine forth like thine | M |
| Him thou might'st look upon and say fair youth | N |
| Then turn to me and think that I am old | O |
| And yet the light and giddy souls of cavaliers | P |
| Harbor no love so fervent as their words bespeak | Q |
| Let some poor maiden love them and believe them | R |
| Then die for them they smile Aye these young birds | S |
| With gay and glittering wing and amorous song | T |
| Can shed their love as lightly as their plumage | U |
| The old whose voice and colors age has dimmed | V |
| Flatter no more and though less fair are faithful | W |
| When we love we love true Are our steps frail | X |
| Our eyes dried up and withered Are our brows | Y |
| Wrinkled There are no wrinkles in the heart | Z |
| Ah when the graybeard loves he should be spared | A2 |
| The heart is young that bleeds unto the last | B2 |
| I love thee as a spouse and in a thousand | C2 |
| Other fashions as sire as we love | B |
| The morn the flowers the overhanging heavens | K |
| Ah me when day by day I gaze upon thee | I |
| Thy graceful step thy purely polished brow | D2 |
| Thine eyes' calm fire I feel my heart leap up | E2 |
| And an eternal sunshine bathe my soul | D |
| And think too Even the world admires | F2 |
| When age expiring for a moment totters | F2 |
| Upon the marble margin of a tomb | G2 |
| To see a wife a pure and dove like angel | W |
| Watch over him soothe him and endure awhile | H2 |
| The useless old man only fit to die | L |
| A sacred task and worthy of all honor | I2 |
| This latest effort of a faithful heart | Z |
| Which in his parting hour consoles the dying | F |
| And without loving wears the look of love | B |
| Ah thou wilt be to me this sheltering angel | W |
| To cheer the old man's heart to share with him | J2 |
| The burden of his evil years a daughter | I2 |
| In thy respect a sister in thy pity | I |
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| DONNA SOL My fate may be more to precede than follow | K2 |
| My lord it is no reason for long life | L2 |
| That we are young Alas I have seen too oft | M2 |
| The old clamped firm to life the young torn thence | F2 |
| And the lids close as sudden o'er their eyes | F2 |
| As gravestones sealing up the sepulchre | I2 |
Victor Marie Hugo
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