When You Are Old Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE| When you are old and grey and full of sleep | A |
| And nodding by the fire take down this book | B |
| And slowly read and dream of the soft look | B |
| Your eyes had once and of their shadows deep | A |
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| How many loved your moments of glad grace | C |
| And loved your beauty with love false or true | D |
| But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you | D |
| And loved the sorrows of your changing face | C |
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| And bending down beside the glowing bars | E |
| Murmur a little sadly how Love fled | F |
| And paced upon the mountains overhead | F |
| And hid his face amid a crowd of stars | E |
William Butler Yeats
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