Picture Of An Old Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDEFED| Old man I saw thee in thy garden chair | A |
| Sitting in silence 'mid the shrubs and trees | B |
| Of thy small cottage croft whilst murmuring bees | B |
| Went by and almost touched thy temples bare | A |
| Edged with a few flakes of the whitest hair | A |
| And soothed by the faint hum of ebbing seas | B |
| And song of birds and breath of the young breeze | B |
| Thus didst thou sit feeling the summer air | A |
| Blow gently with a sad still decadence | C |
| Sinking to earth in hope but all alone | D |
| Oh hast thou wept to feel the lonely sense | E |
| Of earthly loss musing on voices gone | F |
| Hush the vain murmur that without offence | E |
| Thy head may rest in peace beneath the churchyard stone | D |
William Lisle Bowles
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