O. W. Holmes On His Eightieth Birth-day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDCCDEFFFCC| Climbing a path which leads back never more | A |
| We heard behind his footsteps and his cheer | B |
| Now face to face we greet him standing here | C |
| Upon the lonely summit of Fourscore | C |
| Welcome to us o'er whom the lengthened day | D |
| Is closing and the shadows colder grow | C |
| His genial presence like an afterglow | C |
| Following the one just vanishing away | D |
| Long be it ere the table shall be set | E |
| For the last breakfast of the Autocrat | F |
| And love repeat with smiles and tears thereat | F |
| His own sweet songs that time shall not forget | F |
| Waiting with us the call to come up higher | C |
| Life is not less the heavens are only higher | C |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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