Old Ben Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DEAE FGAG HIAG AJK LJGJ CMGM| Sad is old Ben Thistlewaite | A |
| Now his day is done | B |
| And all his children | B |
| Far away are gone | C |
| - | |
| He sits beneath his jasmined porch | D |
| His stick between his knees | E |
| His eyes fixed vacant | A |
| On his moss grown trees | E |
| - | |
| Grass springs in the green path | F |
| His flowers are lean and dry | G |
| His thatch hangs in wisps against | A |
| The evening sky | G |
| - | |
| He has no heart to care now | H |
| Though the winds will blow | I |
| Whistling in his casement | A |
| And the rain drip thro' | G |
| - | |
| He thinks of his old Bettie | A |
| How she'd shake her head and say | J |
| 'You'll live to wish my sharp old tongue | K |
| Could scold some day ' | - |
| - | |
| But as in pale high autumn skies | L |
| The swallows float and play | J |
| His restless thoughts pass to and fro | G |
| But nowhere stay | J |
| - | |
| Soft on the morrow they are gone | C |
| His garden then will be | M |
| Denser and shadier and greener | G |
| Greener the moss grown tree | M |
Walter De La Mare
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