Poem On His Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDBEF GBHBIJKBB LMBNOBBBP QRBSPTUCV WBXYBEZA2B2 C2D2E2BBF2G2BH2 RI2J2BBK2L2HB I2M2BGBN2O2BP2 HQ2R2Q2BAQ2WQ2 S2T2U2V2BBBW2Q2 X2BBBI2Y2Z2Q2B BUA3B3Q2GBM2Q2

In the mustardseed sunA
By full tilt river and switchback seaB
Where the cormorants scudC
In his house on stilts high among beaksB
And palavers of birdsB
This sandgrain day in the bent bay's graveD
He celebrates and spurnsB
His driftwood thirty fifth wind turned ageE
Herons spire and spearF
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Under and round him goG
Flounders gulls on their cold dying trailsB
Doing what they are toldH
Curlews aloud in the congered wavesB
Work at their ways to deathI
And the rhymer in the long tongued roomJ
Who tolls his birthday bellK
Toesl towards the ambush of his woundsB
Herons stepple stemmed blessB
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In the thistledown fallL
He sings towards anguish finches flyM
In the claw tracks of hawksB
On a seizing sky small fishes glideN
Through wynds and shells of drownedO
Ship towns to pastures of otters HeB
In his slant racking houseB
And the hewn coils of his trade perceivesB
Herons walk in their shroudP
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The livelong river's robeQ
Of minnows wreathing around their prayerR
And far at sea he knowsB
Who slaves to his crouched eternal endS
Under a serpent cloudP
Dolphins dyive in their turnturtle dustT
The rippled seals streak downU
To kill and their own tide daubing bloodC
Slides good in the sleek mouthV
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In a cavernous swungW
Wave's silence wept white angelus knellsB
Thirty five bells sing struckX
On skull and scar where his lovews lie wreckedY
Steered by the falling starsB
And to morrow weeps in a blind cageE
Terror will rage apartZ
Before chains break to a hammer flameA2
And love unbolts the darkB2
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And freely he goes lostC2
In the unknown famous light of greatD2
And fabulous dear GodE2
Dark is a way and light is a placeB
Heaven that never wasB
Nor will be ever is alwas trueF2
And in that brambled voidG2
Plenty as blackberries in the woodsB
The dead grow for His joyH2
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There he might wander bareR
With the spirits of the horseshoe bayI2
Or the stars' seashore deadJ2
Marrow of eagles the roots of whalesB
And wishbones of wild geeseB
With blessed unborn God and His GhostK2
And every soul His priestL2
Gulled and chanter in youg Heaven's foldH
Be at cloud quaking peaceB
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But dark is a long wayI2
He on the earth of the night aloneM2
With all the living praysB
Who knows the rocketing wind will blowG
The bones out of the hillsB
And the scythed boulders bleed and the lastN2
Rage shattered waters kickO2
Masts and fishes to the still quick starsB
Faithlessly unto HimP2
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Who is the light of oldH
And air shaped Heaven where souls grow wildQ2
As horses in the foamR2
Oh let me midlife mourn by the shrinedQ2
And druid herons' vowsB
The voyage to ruin I must runA
Dawn ships clouted agroundQ2
Yet though I cry with tumbledown tongueW
Count my blessings aloudQ2
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Four elements and fiveS2
Senses and man a spirit in loveT2
Thangling through this spun slimeU2
To his nimbus bell cool kingdom comeV2
And the lost moonshine domesB
And the sea that hides his secret selvesB
Deep in its black base bonesB
Lulling of spheres in the seashell fleshW2
And this last blessing mostQ2
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That the closer I moveX2
To death one man through his sundered hulksB
The louder the sun bloomsB
And the tusked ramshackling sea exultsB
And every wave of the wayI2
And gale I tackle the whole world thenY2
With more triumphant faithZ2
That ever was since the world was saidQ2
Spins its morning of praiseB
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I hear the bouncing hillsB
Grow larked and greener at berry brownU
Fall and the dew larks singA3
Taller this thuderclap spring and howB3
More spanned with angles rideQ2
The mansouled fiery islands OhG
Holier then their eyesB
And my shining men no more aloneM2
As I sail out to dieQ2

Dylan Thomas



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