The Birthday Wreath Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAAC DDECCE FFGHHG EEIJJK LLMEEM| Blossom and greenness making all | A |
| The winter birthday tropical | B |
| And the plain Quaker parlors gay | C |
| Have gone from bracket stand and wall | A |
| We saw them fade and droop and fall | A |
| And laid them tenderly away | C |
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| White virgin lilies mignonette | D |
| Blown rose and pink and violet | D |
| A breath of fragrance passing by | E |
| Visions of beauty and decay | C |
| Colors and shapes that could not stay | C |
| The fairest sweetest first to die | E |
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| But still this rustic wreath of mine | F |
| Of acorned oak and needled pine | F |
| And lighter growths of forest lands | G |
| Woven and wound with careful pains | H |
| And tender thoughts and prayers remains | H |
| As when it dropped from love's dear hands | G |
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| And not unfitly garlanded | E |
| Is he who country born and bred | E |
| Welcomes the sylvan ring which gives | I |
| A feeling of old summer days | J |
| The wild delight of woodland ways | J |
| The glory of the autumn leaves | K |
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| And if the flowery meed of song | L |
| To other bards may well belong | L |
| Be his who from the farm field spoke | M |
| A word for Freedom when her need | E |
| Was not of dulcimer and reed | E |
| This Isthmian wreath of pine and oak | M |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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