A Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CBCCB DBDDE FBGFBTHE 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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