A Birthday Walk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDED FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO APAP QRQR STSU VWVW XAXA YZYZ COCO| WRITTEN FOR A FRIEND'S BIRTHDAY | A |
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| The days of our life are threescore years and ten | B |
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| A birthday and a day that rose | C |
| With much of hope with meaning rife | D |
| A thoughtful day from dawn to close | E |
| The middle day of human life | D |
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| In sloping fields on narrow plains | F |
| The sheep were feeding on their knees | G |
| As we went through the winding lanes | F |
| Strewed with red buds of alder trees | G |
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| So warm the day its influence lent | H |
| To flagging thought a stronger wing | I |
| So utterly was winter spent | H |
| So sudden was the birth of spring | I |
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| Wild crocus flowers in copse and hedge | J |
| In sunlight clustering thick below | K |
| Sighed for the firwood's shaded ledge | J |
| Where sparkled yet a line of snow | K |
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| And crowded snowdrops faintly hung | L |
| Their fair heads lower for the heat | M |
| While in still air all branches flung | L |
| Their shadowy doubles at our feet | M |
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| And through the hedge the sunbeams crept | N |
| Dropped through the maple and the birch | O |
| And lost in airy distance slept | N |
| On the broad tower of Tamworth Church | O |
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| Then lingering on the downward way | A |
| A little space we resting stood | P |
| To watch the golden haze that lay | A |
| Adown that river by the wood | P |
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| A distance vague the bloom of sleep | Q |
| The constant sun had lent the scene | R |
| A veiling charm on dingles deep | Q |
| Lay soft those pastoral hills between | R |
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| There are some days that die not out | S |
| Nor alter by reflection's power | T |
| Whose converse calm whose words devout | S |
| For ever rest the spirit's dower | U |
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| And they are days when drops a veil | V |
| A mist upon the distance past | W |
| And while we say to peace All hail | V |
| We hope that always it shall last | W |
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| Times when the troubles of the heart | X |
| Are hushed as winds were hushed that day | A |
| And budding hopes begin to start | X |
| Like those green hedgerows on our way | A |
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| When all within and all around | Y |
| Like hues on that sweet landscape blend | Z |
| And Nature's hand has made to sound | Y |
| The heartstrings that her touch attend | Z |
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| When there are rays within like those | C |
| That streamed through maple and through birch | O |
| And rested in such calm repose | C |
| On the broad tower of Tamworth Church | O |
Jean Ingelow
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