To John Townsend Trowbridge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFFGGHI J| Gay Summer sees the flowering | A |
| Of buds that were the gift of Spring | A |
| And Winter counts the ripened sheaves | B |
| That Autumn harvested Who grieves | B |
| When he at length has won the race | C |
| Or backward then his way would trace | C |
| - | |
| Oh honored Poet Wit and Sage | D |
| This birthday marks an open page | D |
| And here before its record's writ | E |
| These words we would inscribe on it | E |
| Thou upon whom thy years fourscore | F |
| So lightly sit thou hast a store | F |
| Of memories such as they alone | G |
| May have whose hearts all truth have known | G |
| Now may this year bring thee no less | H |
| Than all the past of happiness | I |
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| On his eightieth birthday | J |
Helen Leah Reed
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