My Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK ALAL HMHM NONO| A dozen years since in this house what commotion | A |
| What bustle what stir and what joyful ado | B |
| Every soul in the family at my devotion | A |
| When into the world I came twelve years ago | C |
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| I've been told by my friends if they do not belie me | D |
| My promise was such as no parent would scorn | E |
| The wise and the aged who prophesied by me | D |
| Augured nothing but good of me when I was born | E |
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| But vain are the hopes which are formed by a parent | F |
| Fallacious the marks which in infancy shine | G |
| My frail constitution soon made it apparent | F |
| I nourished within me the seeds of decline | G |
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| On a sick bed I lay through the flesh my bones started | H |
| My grief wasted frame to a skeleton fell | I |
| My physicians foreboding took leave and departed | H |
| And they wished me dead now who wish d me well | I |
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| Life and soul were kept in by a mother's assistance | J |
| Who struggled with faith and prevailed 'gainst despair | K |
| Like an angel she watched o'er the lamp of existence | J |
| And never would leave while a glimmer was there | K |
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| By her care I'm alive now but what retribution | A |
| Can I for a life twice bestowed thus confer | L |
| Were I to be silent each year's revolution | A |
| Proclaims each new birthday is owing to her | L |
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| The chance rooted tree that by waysides is planted | H |
| Where no friendly hand will watch o'er its young shoots | M |
| Has less blame if in autumn when produce is wanted | H |
| Enriched by small culture it put forth small fruits | M |
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| But that which with labour in hot beds is reared | N |
| Secured by nice art from the dews and the rains | O |
| Unsound at the root may with justice be feared | N |
| If it pay not with interest the tiller's hard pains | O |
Charles Lamb
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