Seven Years Old Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBCBC A DEDDEDE A FGFFGFG H FFFFFFF H FDFFDFI H JHJJHJH H FCFFCFC| I | A |
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| SEVEN white roses on one tree | B |
| Seven white loaves of blameless leaven | C |
| Seven white sails on one soft sea | B |
| Seven white swans on one lake s lee | B |
| Seven white flowerlike stars in heaven | C |
| All are types unmeet to be | B |
| For a birthday s crown of seven | C |
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| II | A |
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| Not the radiance of the roses | D |
| Not the blessing of the bread | E |
| Not the breeze that ere day grows is | D |
| Fresh for sails and swans and closes | D |
| Wings above the sun s grave spread | E |
| When the starshine on the snows is | D |
| Sweet as sleep on sorrow shed | E |
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| III | A |
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| Nothing sweetest nothing best | F |
| Holds so good and sweet a treasure | G |
| As the love wherewith once blest | F |
| Joy grows holy grief takes rest | F |
| Life half tired with hours to measure | G |
| Fills his eyes and lips and breast | F |
| With most light and breath of pleasure | G |
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| IV | H |
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| As the rapture unpolluted | F |
| As the passion undefiled | F |
| By whose force all pains heart rooted | F |
| Are transfigured and transmuted | F |
| Recompensed and reconciled | F |
| Through the imperial undisputed | F |
| Present godhead of a child | F |
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| V | H |
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| Brown bright eyes and fair bright head | F |
| Worth a worthier crown than this is | D |
| Worth a worthier song instead | F |
| Sweet grave wise round mouth full fed | F |
| With the joy of love whose bliss is | D |
| More than mortal wine and bread | F |
| Lips whose words are sweet as kisses | I |
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| VI | H |
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| Little hands so glad of giving | J |
| Little heart so glad of love | H |
| Little soul so glad of living | J |
| While the strong swift hours are weaving | J |
| Light with darkness woven above | H |
| Time for mirth and time for grieving | J |
| Plume of raven and plume of dove | H |
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| VII | H |
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| I can give you but a word | F |
| Warm with love therein for leaven | C |
| But a song that falls unheard | F |
| Yet on ears of sense unstirred | F |
| Yet by song so far from heaven | C |
| Whence you came the brightest bird | F |
| Seven years since of seven times seven | C |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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