If I Were Old Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDCDC EFCFCEE| If I were old a broken man and blind | A |
| and one should lead me to Mid Eildon's crest | B |
| and leave me there a little time to rest | B |
| sharing the hilltop with the Border wind | A |
| the whispering heather and the curlew's cry | C |
| I know the blind dark could not be so deep | D |
| so cruel and clinging but that I | C |
| should see the sunlit curve of Cheviot's steep | D |
| rise blue and friendly on the distant sky | C |
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| There is no darkness God there cannot be | E |
| so heavy as to curtain from my sight | F |
| the beauty of those Border slopes that lie | C |
| far south before me and a love found light | F |
| would shine upon the slow Tweed loitering by | C |
| with gift of song and silver to the sea | E |
| No dark can ever hide this dear loved land from me | E |
William Henry Ogilvie
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