My Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCDCEC FGFGGHGHIH DJDJJKJKLK MNMNNENOE DLDBLLPLPQP DMDMMRSMRTR UVUVVWVWVX| Let the sun summon all his beams to hold | A |
| Bright pageant in his court the cloud paved sky | B |
| Earth trim her fields and leaf her copses cold | A |
| Till the dull month with summer splendours vie | B |
| It is my Birthday and I fain would try | B |
| Albeit in rude in heartfelt strains to praise | C |
| My God for He hath shielded wondrously | D |
| From harm and envious error all my ways | C |
| And purged my misty sight and fixed on heaven | E |
| my gaze | C |
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| Not in that mood in which the insensate crowd | F |
| Of wealthy folly hail their natal day | G |
| With riot throng and feast and greetings loud | F |
| Chasing all thoughts of God and heaven away | G |
| Poor insect feebly daring madly gay | G |
| What joy because the fulness of the year | H |
| Marks thee for greedy death a riper prey | G |
| Is not the silence of the grave too near | H |
| Viewest thou the end with glee meet scene for | I |
| harrowing fear | H |
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| Go then infatuate where the festive hall | D |
| The curious board the oblivious wine invite | J |
| Speed with obsequious haste at Pleasure's call | D |
| And with thy revels scare the far spent night | J |
| Joy thee that clearer dawn upon thy sight | J |
| The gates of death and pride thee in thy sum | K |
| Of guilty years and thy increasing white | J |
| Of locks in age untimely frolicksome | K |
| Make much of thy brief span few years are yet to | L |
| come | K |
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| Yet wiser such than he whom blank despair | M |
| And fostered grief's ungainful toil enslave | N |
| Lodged in whose furrowed brow thrives fretful care | M |
| Sour graft of blighted hope who when the wave | N |
| Of evil rushes yields yet claims to rave | N |
| At his own deed as the stern will of heaven | E |
| In sooth against his Maker idly brave | N |
| Whom e'en the creature world has tossed and | O |
| driven | E |
| Cursing the life he mars 'a boon so kindly given ' | - |
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| He dreams of mischief and that brainborn ill | D |
| Man's open face bears in his jealous view | L |
| Fain would he fly his doom that doom is still | D |
| His own black thoughts and they must aye | B |
| pursue | L |
| Too proud for merriment or the pure dew | L |
| Soft glistening on the sympathising cheek | P |
| As some dark lonely evil natured yew | L |
| Whose poisonous fruit so fabling poets speak | P |
| Beneath the moon's pale gleam the midnight hag | Q |
| doth seek | P |
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| No give to me Great Lord the constant soul | D |
| Nor fooled by pleasure nor enslaved by care | M |
| Each rebel passion for Thou canst controul | D |
| And make me know the tempter's every snare | M |
| What though alone my sober hours I wear | M |
| No friend in view and sadness o'er my mind | R |
| Throws her dark veil Thou but accord this | S |
| prayer | M |
| And I will bless Thee for my birth and find | R |
| That stillness breathes sweet tones and solitude is | T |
| kind | R |
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| Each coming year O grant it to refine | U |
| All purer motions of this anxious breast | V |
| Kindle the steadfast flame of love divine | U |
| And comfort me with holier thoughts possest | V |
| Till this worn body slowly sink to rest | V |
| This feeble spirit to the sky aspire | W |
| As some long prisoned dove toward her nest | V |
| There to receive the gracious full toned lyre | W |
| Bowed low before the Throne 'mid the bright | V |
| seraph choir | X |
John Henry Newman
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