An Anniversary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBC ADEDE AFGFG HIJIJ HKBKB HLHLH HMNMN HOPOQ LLLLL LNHNH HBLBL LRPRP LLSLS HNNNN HNNNN HTLTL HNKNK HELEL LNJNJ LNNNN LHUHU HHNHN| I | A |
| AS flower to sun its drop of dew | B |
| Gives from its crystal cup | C |
| So I as morning gift to you | B |
| This poor verse offer up | C |
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| II | A |
| As flowers upon the summer wind | D |
| Their air born odours shake | E |
| So in all fragrance you may find | D |
| I give but what I take | E |
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| III | A |
| My tree blooms green through snow and heat | F |
| Your love is sap and root | G |
| And this is but the breathing sweet | F |
| Of fairest blossom shoot | G |
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| IV | H |
| An outgrowth of the happy days | I |
| In wedded lives begun | J |
| Two lives in all their work and ways | I |
| Indissolubly one | J |
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| V | H |
| The force that was to bind us so | K |
| We very dimly knew | B |
| Ah love it seems so long ago | K |
| And yet the years are few | B |
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| VI | H |
| We did not wait for tides to rise | L |
| Nor cared that winds were rough | H |
| They call'd us foolish we were wise | L |
| God gave us wealth enough | H |
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| VII | H |
| He only knows what precious change | M |
| We took of Him for gold | N |
| What blessing such a narrow range | M |
| Of circumstance can hold | N |
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| VIII | H |
| No troubles now could memory spare | O |
| No lightest touch of pain | P |
| No hard experience of care | O |
| Would we unlearn again | Q |
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| IX | L |
| Such love surrounds such beauty lies | L |
| On our most common needs | L |
| As silver hoar frost glorifies | L |
| The wayside sticks and weeds | L |
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| X | L |
| All trials that are overpast | N |
| All cares that are to be | H |
| But make more sacred and more fast | N |
| The ties 'twixt you and me | H |
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| XI | H |
| They are but clear lights shining through | B |
| The mist that round us rolls | L |
| They are but touchstones fine and true | B |
| For fond and faithful souls | L |
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| XII | L |
| They are but fires to cleanse and clean | R |
| Our human love from stain | P |
| For naught of sordid false or mean | R |
| From those blest fires remain | P |
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| XIII | L |
| They are but keys within the wards | L |
| Of that last inmost door | S |
| Where the heart's dearest treasure hoards | L |
| Are garner'd evermore | S |
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| XIV | H |
| Ah dear our very griefs are glad | N |
| Our every cross is crown'd | N |
| We are not able to be sad | N |
| Such comfort wraps us round | N |
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| XV | H |
| How calm the haven where we rest | N |
| Now passion's storms are past | N |
| How warm and soft the little nest | N |
| Which shelters us at last | N |
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| XVI | H |
| How blue pellucid and divine | T |
| Through all our days and nights | L |
| The clear eyes of our children shine | T |
| Like heavenly beacon lights | L |
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| XVII | H |
| We listen to the laughter sweet | N |
| Whose echoes come and go | K |
| The music of the little feet | N |
| That patter to and fro | K |
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| XVIII | H |
| And deepest thoughts of God awake | E |
| Who hath reveal'd Him thus | L |
| And in His goodness deign'd to make | E |
| His own abode with us | L |
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| XIX | L |
| To God in Christ we kneel to day | N |
| Whose will on earth be done | J |
| As He hath made us let us pray | N |
| That He will keep us one | J |
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| XX | L |
| Together may we feel Him stand | N |
| About our path and bed | N |
| Together may we hand in hand | N |
| His royal highway tread | N |
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| XXI | L |
| The dear ones He has given to be | H |
| Of His redeem'd the type | U |
| Together may we live to see | H |
| Their budding promise ripe | U |
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| XXII | H |
| And O my dearest may we lie | H |
| In our last night of rest | N |
| Asleep together peacefully | H |
| Upon our Father's breast | N |
Ada Cambridge
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