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THE VICTORIAN POET IN HIS RONDOTAGE by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: I AM TOO OLD TO BE ENSNARED
Last Line: I AM TOO OLD.
Subject(s): BEAUTY; POETRY & POETS; RHYME;
I AM too old to be ensnared
By formless verse. For I first aired
My boyish lyre in Dobson's rule,
And taught myself in that strict school
To have my stanzas filed and pared.

How hopelessly for rhymes I stared!
But chipped and polished till I bared
The finer grain. Discard my tool?
I am too old.

I vote for verses craftsman-cared --
Landor'd, Dobson'd, De la Mare'd;
For rhyme is still the quiet pool
Where Beauty is reflected. You'll
Agree (as many have declared)
I am too old.



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