A Ninth Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BAB ABAB C DBDB BDB DBDB C ABAB BAB ABAB| Three times thrice hath winter's rough white wing | A |
| Crossed and curdled wells and streams with ice | B |
| Since his birth whose praises love would sing | A |
| Three times thrice | B |
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| Earth nor sea bears flower nor pearl of price | B |
| Fit to crown the forehead of my king | A |
| Honey meet to please him balm nor spice | B |
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| Love can think of nought but love to bring | A |
| Fit to serve or do him sacrifice | B |
| Ere his eyes have looked upon the spring | A |
| Three times thrice | B |
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| II | C |
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| Three times thrice the world has fallen on slumber | D |
| Shone and waned and withered in a trice | B |
| Frost has fettered Thames and Tyne and Humber | D |
| Three times thrice | B |
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| Fogs have swoln too thick for steel to slice | B |
| Cloud and mud have soiled with grime and umber | D |
| Earth and heaven defaced as souls with vice | B |
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| Winds have risen to wreck snows fallen to cumber | D |
| Ships and chariots trapped like rats or mice | B |
| Since my king first smiled whose years now number | D |
| Three times thrice | B |
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| III | C |
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| Three times thrice in wine of song full flowing | A |
| Pledge my heart the child whose eyes suffice | B |
| Once beheld to set thy joy bells going | A |
| Three times thrice | B |
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| Not the lands of palm and date and rice | B |
| Glow more bright when summer leaves them glowing | A |
| Laugh more light when suns and winds entice | B |
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| Noon and eve and midnight and cock crowing | A |
| Child whose love makes life as paradise | B |
| Love should sound your praise with clarions blowing | A |
| Three times thrice | B |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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