A Prayer For Old Age Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIJD| God 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 |
| - | |
| 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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