My Dearest Frank, I Wish You Joy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEFGGHHIJKKHLBB MMNNHHOOHHHHHHMMPPMM HHHHHHHHQQRRMy dearest Frank I wish you joy | A |
Of Mary's safety with a Boy | A |
Whose birth has given little pain | B |
Compared with that of Mary Jane | B |
May he a growing Blessing prove | C |
And well deserve his Parents' Love | D |
Endow'd with Art's and Nature's Good | E |
Thy Name possessing with thy Blood | F |
In him in all his ways may we | G |
Another Francis WIlliam see | G |
Thy infant days may he inherit | H |
THey warmth nay insolence of spirit | H |
We would not with one foult dispense | I |
To weaken the resemblance | J |
May he revive thy Nursery sin | K |
Peeping as daringly within | K |
His curley Locks but just descried | H |
With 'Bet my be not come to bide ' | L |
Fearless of danger braving pain | B |
And threaten'd very oft in vain | B |
Still may one Terror daunt his Soul | M |
One needful engine of Controul | M |
Be found in this sublime array | N |
A neigbouring Donkey's aweful Bray | N |
So may his equal faults as Child | H |
Produce Maturity as mild | H |
His saucy words and fiery ways | O |
In early Childhood's pettish days | O |
In Manhood shew his Father's mind | H |
Like him considerate and Kind | H |
All Gentleness to those around | H |
And anger only not to wound | H |
Then like his Father too he must | H |
To his own former struggles just | H |
Feel his Deserts with honest Glow | M |
And all his self improvement know | M |
A native fault may thus give birth | P |
To the best blessing conscious Worth | P |
As for ourselves we're very well | M |
As unaffected prose will tell | M |
Cassandra's pen will paint our state | H |
The many comforts that await | H |
Our Chawton home how much we find | H |
Already in it to our mind | H |
And how convinced that when complete | H |
It will all other Houses beat | H |
The ever have been made or mended | H |
With rooms concise or rooms distended | H |
You'll find us very snug next year | Q |
Perhaps with Charles and Fanny near | Q |
For now it often does delight us | R |
To fancy them just over right us | R |
Jane Austen
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