For Jane's Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIKLMNO PQPQRSRS| If fate had held a careless knife | A |
| And clipped one line that drew | B |
| Of all the myriad lines of life | A |
| From Eden up to you | B |
| If in the wars and wastes of time | C |
| One sire had met the sword | D |
| One mother died before her prime | C |
| Or wed some other lord | D |
| - | |
| Or had some other age been blest | E |
| Long past or yet to be | F |
| And you had been the world's sweet guest | E |
| Before or after me | F |
| I wonder how this rose would seem | G |
| Or yonder hillside cot | H |
| For dear I cannot even dream | G |
| A world where you are not | H |
| - | |
| Thus heaven forfends that I shall drink | I |
| The gall that might have been | J |
| If aught had broken a single link | I |
| Along the lists of men | K |
| And heaven forgives me whom it loves | L |
| For feigning such distress | M |
| My heart is happiest when it proves | N |
| Its depth of happiness | O |
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| Enough to see you where you are | P |
| Radiant with maiden mirth | Q |
| To bless whatever blessed star | P |
| Presided o'er your birth | Q |
| That on this immemorial morn | R |
| When heaven was bending low | S |
| The gods were kind and you were born | R |
| Twenty sweet years ago | S |
John Charles Mcneill
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