Birthday Honours Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFED AGC HIJ AJC KLC| My natal day was yesterday | A |
| And so I said to Fate | B |
| 'What gifts bring you by one by two | C |
| To ease my parlous state ' | D |
| 'I proffer blindly ' Fate replied | E |
| From chance found joys and ills | F |
| For you the 'flu and this beside | E |
| A sheaf of monthly bills ' | D |
| - | |
| My natal day was yesterday | A |
| And so I said to Chance | G |
| 'What gifts bring you by one by two | C |
| My fortunes to enhance ' | - |
| Said Chance 'I bring no obvious thing | H |
| Unguessed escape bring I | I |
| From dangers rife alway in life | J |
| That closely pass you by ' | - |
| - | |
| My natal day was yesterday | A |
| And so I said to Life | J |
| 'What gifts bring you by one by two | C |
| To salve me in the strife ' | - |
| But Life said 'Nought Long since I brought | K |
| My gifts glum misanthrope | L |
| And these for you I here renew | C |
| Myself and human hope ' | - |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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