A Prayer For Old Age Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIJDGod guard me from those thoughts men think | A |
In the mind alone | B |
He that sings a lasting song | C |
Thinks in a marrow bone | B |
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From all that makes a wise old man | D |
That can be praised of all | E |
O what am I that I should not seem | F |
For the song's sake a fool | G |
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I pray for word is out | H |
And prayer comes round again | I |
That I may seem though I die old | J |
A foolish passionate man | D |
William Butler Yeats
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