A Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCB DEDEFE GHGHIH JKJKLK MNMNOP QGQGKG RSRSTS BUBUVU WXWXYX| The love within my heart that dwells | A |
| Knows nought of days or hours | B |
| I hear thee in the Christmas bells | A |
| I feel thee in the vernal showers | B |
| And thy breath is blent with the wandering scent | C |
| Of the summer fruits and flowers | B |
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| And yet this morn my blood is stirred | D |
| With more than wonted glow | E |
| Thy absent voice is strangely heard | D |
| Thy spells upon me stronger grow | E |
| And my spirit sips from unseen lips | F |
| That can be but thine I know | E |
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| For thou wast born upon this day | G |
| When I was but a child | H |
| Ere winter frosts were ta'en away | G |
| Ere primroses peeped out and smiled | H |
| Ere the snows were reft from the sheltering cleft | I |
| And the winds were high and wild | H |
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| Thus early unto me wast thou | J |
| An earnest of the spring | K |
| Of happy birds upon the bough | J |
| And sweet trees blossoming | K |
| Of all that is fair upon earth in air | L |
| And the streams that bound and sing | K |
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| I wonder what the world was like | M |
| Before thou didst appear | N |
| Did young lambs skip o'er mound and dyke | M |
| Did throstles warble loud and clear | N |
| And were sea and sky as deep and high | O |
| As they are now thou art here | P |
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| It were a dreary world indeed | Q |
| To me wert thou away | G |
| The night no tumults sweet would breed | Q |
| No tranquil dalliance the day | G |
| And though earth should fling all that Fame can bring | K |
| At my feet I would not stay | G |
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| So though sore severed still we be | R |
| Here helpful one remain | S |
| Through travels long a bourne to me | R |
| A crowning joy 'mid crushing pain | S |
| An abiding star when the storm waves jar | T |
| And a rainbow 'mid the rain | S |
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| And fear not sweet but love like ours | B |
| Will keep us ever young | U |
| No prey to the corroding hours | B |
| No feast for the malignant tongue | U |
| But as firm and fond in the years beyond | V |
| As when first we clasped and clung | U |
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| Age cannot touch such charms as thine | W |
| My heart defies the sun | X |
| Both shall but glow yet more divine | W |
| His course more oft as he may run | X |
| Till we spurn the earth for that second birth | Y |
| When we twain shall be only one | X |
Alfred Austin
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