Age Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFAGHIIJJKKIIAA LMLMMMNOPPQQRS| This ugly old crone | A |
| Every beauty she had | B |
| When a maid when a maid | C |
| Her beautiful eyes | D |
| Too youthful too wise | D |
| Seemed ever to come | E |
| To so lightless a home | F |
| Cold and dull as a stone | A |
| And her cheeks who would guess | G |
| Cheeks cadaverous as this | H |
| Once with colours were gay | I |
| As the flower on its spray | I |
| Who would ever believe | J |
| Aught could bring one to grieve | J |
| So much as to make | K |
| Lips bent for love's sake | K |
| So thin and so grey | I |
| O Youth come away | I |
| As she asks in her lone | A |
| This old desolate crone | A |
| She loves us no more | L |
| She is too old to care | M |
| For the charms that of yore | L |
| Made her body so fair | M |
| Past repining past care | M |
| She lives but to bear | M |
| One or two fleeting years | N |
| Earth's indifference her tears | O |
| Have lost now their heat | P |
| Her hands and her feet | P |
| Now shake but to be | Q |
| Shed as leaves from a tree | Q |
| And her poor heart beats on | R |
| Like a sea the storm gone | S |
Walter De La Mare
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