To My Son. [1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDD EEFFDD GGHHDD IJKKDD LLMMDD NNOODD| A | |
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| Those flaxen locks those eyes of blue | B |
| Bright as thy mother's in their hue | B |
| Those rosy lips whose dimples play | C |
| And smile to steal the heart away | C |
| Recall a scene of former joy | D |
| And touch thy father's heart my Boy | D |
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| And thou canst lisp a father's name | E |
| Ah William were thine own the same | E |
| No self reproach but let me cease | F |
| My care for thee shall purchase peace | F |
| Thy mother's shade shall smile in joy | D |
| And pardon all the past my Boy | D |
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| Her lowly grave the turf has prest | G |
| And thou hast known a stranger's breast | G |
| Derision sneers upon thy birth | H |
| And yields thee scarce a name on earth | H |
| Yet shall not these one hope destroy | D |
| A Father's heart is thine my Boy | D |
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| Why let the world unfeeling frown | I |
| Must I fond Nature's claims disown | J |
| Ah no though moralists reprove | K |
| I hail thee dearest child of Love | K |
| Fair cherub pledge of youth and joy | D |
| A Father guards thy birth my Boy | D |
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| Oh 'twill be sweet in thee to trace | L |
| Ere Age has wrinkled o'er my face | L |
| Ere half my glass of life is run | M |
| At once a brother and a son | M |
| And all my wane of years employ | D |
| In justice done to thee my Boy | D |
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| Although so young thy heedless sire | N |
| Youth will not damp parental fire | N |
| And wert thou still less dear to me | O |
| While Helen's form revives in thee | O |
| The breast which beat to former joy | D |
| Will ne'er desert its pledge my Boy | D |
George Gordon Byron
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