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