Birthday Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCCCDDD AEEEFGGHHH AIIIJJJKKK| I | A |
| Love and praise and a length of days whose shadow cast upon time is light | B |
| Days whose sound was a spell shed round from wheeling wings as of doves in flight | B |
| Meet in one that the mounting sun to day may triumph and cast out night | B |
| Two years more than the full fourscore lay hallowing hands on a sacred head | C |
| Scarce one score of the perfect four uncrowned of fame as they smiled and fled | C |
| Still and soft and alive aloft their sunlight stays though the suns be dead | C |
| Ere we were or were thought on ere the love that gave us to life began | D |
| Fame grew strong with his crescent song to greet the goal of the race they ran | D |
| Song with fame and the lustrous name with years whose changes acclaimed the man | D |
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| II | A |
| Soon ere time in the rounding rhyme of choral seasons had hailed us men | E |
| We too heard and acclaimed the word whose breath was life upon England then | E |
| Life more bright than the breathless light of soundless noon in a songless glen | E |
| Ah the joy of the heartstruck boy whose ear was opened of love to hear | F |
| Ah the bliss of the burning kiss of song and spirit the mounting cheer | G |
| Lit with fire of divine desire and love that knew not if love were fear | G |
| Fear and love as of heaven above and earth enkindled of heaven were one | H |
| One white flame that around his name grew keen and strong as the worldwide sun | H |
| Awe made bright with implied delight as weft with weft of the rainbow spun | H |
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| III | A |
| He that fears not the voice he hears and loves shall never have heart to sing | I |
| All the grace of the sun god's face that bids the soul as a fountain spring | I |
| Bids the brow that receives it bow and hail his likeness on earth as king | I |
| We that knew when the sun's shaft flew beheld and worshipped adored and heard | J |
| Light rang round it of shining sound whence all men's hearts were subdued and stirred | J |
| Joy love sorrow the day the morrow took life upon them in one man's word | J |
| Not for him can the years wax dim nor downward swerve on a darkening way | K |
| Upward wind they and leave behind such light as lightens the front of May | K |
| Fair as youth and sublime as truth we find the fame that we hail to day | K |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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