The One White Hair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DEFGGF HHIJJJ KKLJJL| THE WISEST of the wise | A |
| Listen to pretty lies | A |
| And love to hear them told | B |
| Doubt not that Solomon | C |
| Listen d to many a one | C |
| Some in his youth and more when he grew old | B |
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| I never was among | D |
| The choir of Wisdom s song | E |
| But pretty lies lov d I | F |
| As much as any king | G |
| When youth was on the wing | G |
| And must it then be told when youth had quite gone by | F |
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| Alas and I have not | H |
| The pleasant hour forgot | H |
| When one pert lady said | I |
| O Walter I am quite | J |
| Bewilder d with affright | J |
| I see sit quiet now a white hair on your head | J |
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| Another more benign | K |
| Snipp d it away from mine | K |
| And in her own dark hair | L |
| Pretended it was found | J |
| She leap d and twirl d it round | J |
| Fair as she was she never was so fair | L |
Walter Savage Landor
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