When You Are Old Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAAABC AABBAC| When you are old and I am passed away | A |
| Passed and your face your golden face is gray | A |
| I think what er the end this dream of mine | B |
| Comforting you a friendly star will shine | B |
| Down the dim slope where you still stumble and stray | A |
| So may it be that so dead yesterday | A |
| Not sad eyed ghost but generous and gay | A |
| May serve your memories like almighty wine | B |
| When you are old | C |
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| Dear Heart it shall be so Under the sway | A |
| Of death the past s enormous disarray | A |
| Lies hushed and dark Yet though there come no sign | B |
| Live on well pleased immortal and divine | B |
| Love shall still tend you as God s angels may | A |
| When you are old | C |
William Ernest Henley
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