Politics

RHYMING SCHEME

  • ABCB

THEMES

  • Old age

  • Lament

  • War & Violence

QUOTES

  • “How can I, that girl standing there/ My attention fix”

  • “On Roman or on Russian/ Or on Spanish politics?”

  • “Yet here’s a travelled man that knows/ What he talks about”

  • “And maybe what they say is true/ Of war and war’s alarms”

  • “But O that I were young again/ And held her in my arms”