Nine Years Old Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCBDBDB AEFEFEFEFE AGHGIGIGIG JKLKLKLKLK JMEMEMEMEM JEEEEEEEEE JJIJIJIJIJ JBIBIBIBIB JILILILILI| I | A |
| Lord of light whose shine no hands destroy | B |
| God of song whose hymn no tongue refuses | C |
| Now though spring far hence be cold and coy | B |
| Bid the golden mouths of all the Muses | C |
| Ring forth gold of strains without alloy | B |
| Till the ninefold rapture that suffuses | D |
| Heaven with song bid earth exult for joy | B |
| Since the child whose head this dawn bedews is | D |
| Sweet as once thy violet cradled boy | B |
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| II | A |
| Even as he lay lapped about with flowers | E |
| Lies the life now nine years old before us | F |
| Lapped about with love in all its hours | E |
| Hailed of many loves that chant in chorus | F |
| Loud or low from lush or leafless bowers | E |
| Some from hearts exultant born sonorous | F |
| Some scarce louder voiced than soft tongued showers | E |
| Two months hence when spring's light wings poised o'er us | F |
| High shall hover and her heart be ours | E |
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| III | A |
| Even as he though man forsaken smiled | G |
| On the soft kind snakes divinely bidden | H |
| There to feed him in the green mid wild | G |
| Full with hurtless honey till the hidden | I |
| Birth should prosper finding fate more mild | G |
| So full fed with pleasures unforbidden | I |
| So by love's lines blamelessly beguiled | G |
| Laughs the nursling of our hearts unchidden | I |
| Yet by change that mars not yet the child | G |
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| IV | J |
| Ah not yet Thou lord of night and day | K |
| Time sweet father of such blameless pleasure | L |
| Time false friend who tak'st thy gifts away | K |
| Spare us yet some scantlings of the treasure | L |
| Leave us yet some rapture of delay | K |
| Yet some bliss of blind and fearless leisure | L |
| Unprophetic of delight's decay | K |
| Yet some nights and days wherein to measure | L |
| All the joys that bless us while they may | K |
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| V | J |
| Not the waste Arcadian woodland wet | M |
| Still with dawn and vocal with Alpheus | E |
| Reared a nursling worthier love's regret | M |
| Lord than this whose eyes beholden free us | E |
| Straight from bonds the soul would fain forget | M |
| Fain cast off that night and day might see us | E |
| Clear once more of life's vain fume and fret | M |
| Leave us then whate'er thy doom decree us | E |
| Yet some days wherein to love him yet | M |
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| VI | J |
| Yet some days wherein the child is ours | E |
| Ours not thine O lord whose hand is o'er us | E |
| Always as the sky with suns and showers | E |
| Dense and radiant soundless or sonorous | E |
| Yet some days for love's sake ere the bowers | E |
| Fade wherein his fair first years kept chorus | E |
| Night and day with Graces robed like hours | E |
| Ere this worshipped childhood wane before us | E |
| Change and bring forth fruit but no more flowers | E |
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| VII | J |
| Love we may the thing that is to be | J |
| Love we must but how forego this olden | I |
| Joy this flower of childish love that we | J |
| Held more dear than aught of Time is holden | I |
| Time whose laugh is like as Death's to see | J |
| Time who heeds not aught of all beholden | I |
| Heard or touched in passing flower or tree | J |
| Tares or grain of leaden days or golden | I |
| More than wind has heed of ships at sea | J |
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| VIII | J |
| First the babe a very rose of joy | B |
| Sweet as hope's first note of jubilation | I |
| Passes then must growth and change destroy | B |
| Next the child and mar the consecration | I |
| Hallowing yet ere thought or sense annoy | B |
| Childhood's yet half heavenlike habitation | I |
| Bright as truth and frailer than a toy | B |
| Whence its guest with eager gratulation | I |
| Springs and life grows larger round the boy | B |
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| IX | J |
| Yet ere sunrise wholly cease to shine | I |
| Ere change come to chide our hearts and scatter | L |
| Memories marked for love's sake with a sign | I |
| Let the light of dawn beholden flatter | L |
| Yet some while our eyes that feed on thine | I |
| Child with love that change nor time can shatter | L |
| Love whose silent song says more than mine | I |
| Now though charged with elder loves and latter | L |
| Here it hails a lord whose years are nine | I |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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