The Birthday Party Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD EFEFGG HGHGGG GIGIJ GKGKGG GGGGLL GMGMNN DODOEE PQPQRR| Had a birthday yesterday | A |
| First one for I think a year | B |
| Won't have one again they say | A |
| Till another year is here | C |
| Funny don't you think so I | D |
| Can't just understand now why | D |
| - | |
| Anyhow my birthday came | E |
| And I had oh lots of things | F |
| Birthday gifts I just can't name | E |
| Even count them toys and rings | F |
| Hoops and books and hats Indeed | G |
| Everything that I don't need | G |
| - | |
| What I wanted was n't suits | H |
| Wooden toys and'Wonderland' | G |
| But a hoe to dig up roots | H |
| And a spade to shovel sand | G |
| Rake to rake where father said | G |
| He has made a flower bed | G |
| - | |
| But I did n't get them and | G |
| Did n't get a box of paints | I |
| Which I wanted I raised sand | G |
| Till my mother said 'My saints | I |
| If you don't behave yourself | J |
| Party'll be laid on the shelf ' | - |
| - | |
| So I did behave and played | G |
| With the little girls and boys | K |
| Who just stayed and stayed and stayed | G |
| Played with me and with my toys | K |
| Broke some too but never mind | G |
| Had the best time of its kind | G |
| - | |
| Had the dinner then I bet | G |
| Y' never saw a finer sight | G |
| A big birthday cake was set | G |
| Thick with icing round and white | G |
| In the centre of the table | L |
| Looking all that it was able | L |
| - | |
| On it four pink candles burned | G |
| And we had a lot of fun | M |
| When a little girl there turned | G |
| Blew them out yes every one | M |
| And I kissed her for it yes | N |
| And she liked it too I guess | N |
| - | |
| When I saw my father why | D |
| All the children then were gone | O |
| Only child around was I | D |
| I was playing on the lawn | O |
| By myself when father came | E |
| And he kissed me just the same | E |
| - | |
| And I asked my father where | P |
| Do the birthdays come from while | Q |
| He sat in his rocking chair | P |
| Looking at me with a smile | Q |
| Then I asked him where they go | R |
| When they're gone He did n't know | R |
Madison Julius Cawein
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