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Short questions and answers of the poem I sit and think written by JRR Tolkien

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Summary of I Sit and Think

'I Sit and Think' by J.R.R. Tolkien contains the thoughts of an aged speaker who is contemplating his past, present, and inescapable future death. The poem begins with the speaker acknowledging the fact that eventually a time will come in which he does not see another season.

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Answer 2

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I Sit and Think’ by J.R.R. Tolkien is a two stanza poem which is separated into sets of six lines, or sestets. The lines follow a constant and structured rhyme scheme that conforms to a pattern of aabbccdd. A reader will notice that while not all the rhymes are repeated in the second stanza, the first couplet rhymes with the first couplet of the preceding stanza. Tolkien chose this pattern of rhyme in an effort to unify his text.