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

IA
AS flower to sun its drop of dewB
Gives from its crystal cupC
So I as morning gift to youB
This poor verse offer upC
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IIA
As flowers upon the summer windD
Their air born odours shakeE
So in all fragrance you may findD
I give but what I takeE
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IIIA
My tree blooms green through snow and heatF
Your love is sap and rootG
And this is but the breathing sweetF
Of fairest blossom shootG
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IVH
An outgrowth of the happy daysI
In wedded lives begunJ
Two lives in all their work and waysI
Indissolubly oneJ
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VH
The force that was to bind us soK
We very dimly knewB
Ah love it seems so long agoK
And yet the years are fewB
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VIH
We did not wait for tides to riseL
Nor cared that winds were roughH
They call'd us foolish we were wiseL
God gave us wealth enoughH
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VIIH
He only knows what precious changeM
We took of Him for goldN
What blessing such a narrow rangeM
Of circumstance can holdN
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VIIIH
No troubles now could memory spareO
No lightest touch of painP
No hard experience of careO
Would we unlearn againQ
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IXL
Such love surrounds such beauty liesL
On our most common needsL
As silver hoar frost glorifiesL
The wayside sticks and weedsL
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XL
All trials that are overpastN
All cares that are to beH
But make more sacred and more fastN
The ties 'twixt you and meH
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XIH
They are but clear lights shining throughB
The mist that round us rollsL
They are but touchstones fine and trueB
For fond and faithful soulsL
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XIIL
They are but fires to cleanse and cleanR
Our human love from stainP
For naught of sordid false or meanR
From those blest fires remainP
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XIIIL
They are but keys within the wardsL
Of that last inmost doorS
Where the heart's dearest treasure hoardsL
Are garner'd evermoreS
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XIVH
Ah dear our very griefs are gladN
Our every cross is crown'dN
We are not able to be sadN
Such comfort wraps us roundN
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XVH
How calm the haven where we restN
Now passion's storms are pastN
How warm and soft the little nestN
Which shelters us at lastN
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XVIH
How blue pellucid and divineT
Through all our days and nightsL
The clear eyes of our children shineT
Like heavenly beacon lightsL
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XVIIH
We listen to the laughter sweetN
Whose echoes come and goK
The music of the little feetN
That patter to and froK
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XVIIIH
And deepest thoughts of God awakeE
Who hath reveal'd Him thusL
And in His goodness deign'd to makeE
His own abode with usL
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XIXL
To God in Christ we kneel to dayN
Whose will on earth be doneJ
As He hath made us let us prayN
That He will keep us oneJ
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XXL
Together may we feel Him standN
About our path and bedN
Together may we hand in handN
His royal highway treadN
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XXIL
The dear ones He has given to beH
Of His redeem'd the typeU
Together may we live to seeH
Their budding promise ripeU
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XXIIH
And O my dearest may we lieH
In our last night of restN
Asleep together peacefullyH
Upon our Father's breastN

Ada Cambridge



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