Thirty-nine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHDHD IJIJKDKD GDLDMDMD NDNDODOD APAPQDQD RHRHADAD S| O hapless day O wretched day | A |
| I hoped you'd pass me by | B |
| Alas the years have sneaked away | A |
| And all is changed but I | B |
| Had I the power I would remand | C |
| You to a gloom condign | D |
| But here you've crept upon me and | E |
| I I am thirty nine | D |
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| Now were I thirty five I could | F |
| Assume a flippant guise | G |
| Or were I forty years I should | F |
| Undoubtedly look wise | G |
| For forty years are said to bring | H |
| Sedateness superfine | D |
| But thirty nine don't mean a thing | H |
| A bas with thirty nine | D |
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| You healthy hulking girls and boys | I |
| What makes you grow so fast | J |
| Oh I'll survive your lusty noise | I |
| I'm tough and bound to last | J |
| No no I'm old and withered too | K |
| I feel my powers decline | D |
| Yet none believes this can be true | K |
| Of one at thirty nine | D |
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| And you dear girl with velvet eyes | G |
| I wonder what you mean | D |
| Through all our keen anxieties | L |
| By keeping sweet sixteen | D |
| With your dear love to warm my heart | M |
| Wretch were I to repine | D |
| I was but jesting at the start | M |
| I'm glad I'm thirty nine | D |
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| So little children roar and race | N |
| As blithely as you can | D |
| And sweetheart let your tender grace | N |
| Exalt the Day and Man | D |
| For then these factors I'll engage | O |
| All subtly shall combine | D |
| To make both juvenile and sage | O |
| The one who's thirty nine | D |
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| Yes after all I'm free to say | A |
| I would much rather be | P |
| Standing as I do stand to day | A |
| 'Twixt devil and deep sea | P |
| For though my face be dark with care | Q |
| Or with a grimace shine | D |
| Each haply falls unto my share | Q |
| For I am thirty nine | D |
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| 'Tis passing meet to make good cheer | R |
| And lord it like a king | H |
| Since only once we catch the year | R |
| That doesn't mean a thing | H |
| O happy day O gracious day | A |
| I pledge thee in this wine | D |
| Come let us journey on our way | A |
| A year good Thirty Nine | D |
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| Sept | S |
Eugene Field
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