My Dearest Frank, I Wish You Joy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEFGGHHIJKKHLBB MMNNHHOOHHHHHHMMPPMM HHHHHHHHQQRR| My 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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