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 HHNHNI | 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 |
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