Bryant On His Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKJK LLLL| We praise not now the poet's art | A |
| The rounded beauty of his song | B |
| Who weighs him from his life apart | A |
| Must do his nobler nature wrong | B |
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| Not for the eye familiar grown | C |
| With charms to common sight denied | D |
| The marvellous gift he shares alone | C |
| With him who walked on Rydal side | D |
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| Not for rapt hymn nor woodland lay | E |
| Too grave for smiles too sweet for tears | F |
| We speak his praise who wears to day | E |
| The glory of his seventy years | G |
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| When Peace brings Freedom in her train | H |
| Let happy lips his songs rehearse | I |
| His life is now his noblest strain | H |
| His manhood better than his verse | I |
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| Thank God his hand on Nature's keys | J |
| Its cunning keeps at life's full span | K |
| But dimmed and dwarfed in times like these | J |
| The poet seems beside the man | K |
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| So be it let the garlands die | L |
| The singer's wreath the painter's meed | L |
| Let our names perish if thereby | L |
| Our country may be saved and freed | L |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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