On My Wife's Birth-day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB DDBB EEBB FFBB BBBB| 'Tis Nancy's birth day raise your strains | A |
| Ye nymphs of the Parnassian plains | A |
| And sing with more than usual glee | B |
| To Nancy who was born for me | B |
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| Tell the blythe Graces as they bound | C |
| Luxuriant in the buxom round | C |
| They're not more elegantly free | B |
| Than Nancy who was born for me | B |
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| Tell royal Venus tho' she rove | D |
| The queen of the immortal grove | D |
| That she must share her golden fee | B |
| With Nancy who was born for me | B |
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| Tell Pallas tho' th'Athenian school | E |
| And ev'ry trite pedantic fool | E |
| On her to place the palm agree | B |
| 'Tis Nancy's who was born for me | B |
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| Tell spotless Dian tho' she range | F |
| The regent of the up land grange | F |
| In chastity she yields to thee | B |
| O Nancy who was born for me | B |
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| Tell Cupid Hymen and tell Jove | B |
| With all the pow'rs of life and love | B |
| That I'd disdain to breathe or be | B |
| If Nancy was not born for me | B |
Christopher Smart
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