A Poet-s Eightieth Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSQ TJQQQ UVQWXQYQZA2A2 QA2B2QQQQC2D2WE2 TA2A2DF2BG2B2A2| He dieth young whom the Gods love '' was said | A |
| By Greek Menander nor alone by One | B |
| Who gave to Greece his English song and sword | C |
| Re echoed is the saying but likewise he | D |
| Who uttered nothing base '' and from whose brow | E |
| By right divine the laurel lapsed to yours | F |
| Great sire great successor in verse confirmed | G |
| The avowal of the Morning Star of Song '' | H |
| Happiest is he that dieth in his flower | I |
| Yet can it be that it is gain not loss | J |
| To quit the pageant of this life before | K |
| The heart hath learnt its meaning leave half seen | L |
| Half seen half felt and not yet understood | M |
| The beauty and the bounty of the world | N |
| The fertile waywardness of wanton Spring | O |
| Summer's deep calm the modulated joy | P |
| Of Autumn conscious of a task fulfilled | Q |
| And home abiding Winter's pregnant sleep | R |
| The secret of the seasons Gain to leave | S |
| The depths of love unfathomed its heights unscaled | Q |
| Rapture and woe unreconciled and pain | T |
| Unprized unapprehended This is loss | J |
| Loss and not gain sheer forfeiture of good | Q |
| Is banishment from Eden though its fruit | Q |
| Remains untasted | Q |
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| Interpret then the oracle He dies young | U |
| Whom the Gods love '' for Song infallible | V |
| Hath so pronounced Thus I interpret it | Q |
| The favourites of the Gods die young for they | W |
| They grow not old with grief and deadening time | X |
| But still keep April moisture in their heart | Q |
| May's music in their ears Their voice revives | Y |
| Revives rejuvenates the wintry world | Q |
| Flushes the veins of gnarled and knotted age | Z |
| And crowns the majesty of life with leaves | A2 |
| As green as are the sapling's | A2 |
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| Thrice happy Poet to have thus renewed | Q |
| Your youth with wisdom who though life still seems | A2 |
| To your fresh gaze as frolic and as fair | B2 |
| As in the callow season when your heart | Q |
| Was but the haunt and pairing place and nest | Q |
| Of nightingale and cuckoo have enriched | Q |
| Joy's inexperienced warblings with the note | Q |
| Of mellow music and whose mind mature | C2 |
| Laden with life's sustaining lessons still | D2 |
| Gleams bright with hope even as I saw to day | W |
| An April rainbow span the August corn | E2 |
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| Long may your green maturity maintain | T |
| Its universal season and your voice | A2 |
| A household sound be heard about our hearths | A2 |
| Now as a Christmas carol now as the glee | D |
| Of vernal Maypole now as harvest song | F2 |
| And when like light withdrawn from earth to heaven | B |
| Your glorious gloaming fades into the sky | G2 |
| We looking upward shall behold you there | B2 |
| Shining amid the young unageing stars | A2 |
Alfred Austin
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