Baby's Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDBC ECFFEC GEHHGE CIJJCI| G T A | A |
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| BEFORE your life that is to come | B |
| Love stands with eager eyes that vainly | C |
| Seek to discern what gift may fit | D |
| The slow unfolding years of it | D |
| And still Time's lips are sealed and dumb | B |
| And still Love sees no future plainly | C |
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| We cannot guess what flowers will spring | E |
| Best in your garden bloom most brightly | C |
| But some fair flowers in any plot | F |
| Will spring and grow and wither not | F |
| And such wish flowers we gladly bring | E |
| And in that small hand lay them lightly | C |
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| Baby we wish that those dear eyes | G |
| May see fulfilment of our dreaming | E |
| Those little feet may turn from wrong | H |
| Those hands to hold the right be strong | H |
| That heart be pure that mind be wise | G |
| To know the true from the true seeming | E |
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| We wish that all your life may be | C |
| A life of selfless brave endeavour | I |
| That for reward the fates allow | J |
| Such love as lines your soft nest now | J |
| To warm the years for you when we | C |
| Who wish you this are cold for ever | I |
Edith Nesbit
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