A Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CBCCB DBDDE FBGFB| THE three Fates sat in a house of birth | A |
| Ah well a day ah well a day | B |
| Their eyes were bright but not with mirth | A |
| They have no love for the sons of earth | A |
| And their lips were parched and gray | B |
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| Their gray locks hung from brow to chin | C |
| Ah well a day ah well a day | B |
| One held the distaff and one did spin | C |
| And one held shears in her fingers thin | C |
| Three silent hags were they | B |
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| We saw not the thread which the sisters spun | D |
| Ah well a day ah well a day | B |
| Nor whether in white or in black begun | D |
| But on her with the shears that elder one | D |
| Our eyes were fixed alway | E |
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| A thread I ween of tangled years | F |
| Ah well a day ah well a day | B |
| God stay her hand that holds the shears | G |
| Our hopes are stronger than our fears | F |
| For the bud upon life's spray | B |
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Frederick George Scott
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