To Age Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHF EDED| Welcome old friend These many years | A |
| Have we lived door by door | B |
| The fates have laid aside their shears | C |
| Perhaps for some few more | B |
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| I was indocile at an age | D |
| When better boys were taught | E |
| But thou at length hast made me sage | D |
| If I am sage in aught | E |
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| Little I know from other men | F |
| Too little they know from me | G |
| But thou hast pointed well the pen | F |
| That writes these lines to thee | G |
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| Thanks for expelling Fear and Hope | H |
| One vile the other vain | I |
| One's scourge the other's telescope | H |
| I shall not see again | F |
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| Rather what lies before my feet | E |
| My notice shall engage | D |
| He who hath braved Youth's dizzy heat | E |
| Dreads not the frost of Age | D |
Walter Savage Landor
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