A Birthday Tribute Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DBDB DEDE FGFG HIHJ KGKG LDLD GGGG G| TO J F CLARKE | A |
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| WHO is the shepherd sent to lead | B |
| Through pastures green the Master's sheep | C |
| What guileless 'Israelite indeed' | B |
| The folded flock may watch and keep | C |
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| He who with manliest spirit joins | D |
| The heart of gentlest human mould | B |
| With burning light and girded loins | D |
| To guide the flock or watch the fold | B |
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| True to all Truth the world denies | D |
| Not tongue tied for its gilded sin | E |
| Not always right in all men's eyes | D |
| But faithful to the light within | E |
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| Who asks no meed of earthly fame | F |
| Who knows no earthly master's call | G |
| Who hopes for man through guilt and shame | F |
| Still answering 'God is over all' | G |
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| Who makes another's grief his own | H |
| Whose smile lends joy a double cheer | I |
| Where lives the saint if such be known | H |
| Speak softly such an one is here | J |
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| O faithful shepherd thou hast borne | K |
| The heat and burden of the clay | G |
| Yet o'er thee bright with beams unshorn | K |
| The sun still shows thine onward way | G |
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| To thee our fragrant love we bring | L |
| In buds that April half displays | D |
| Sweet first born angels of the spring | L |
| Caught in their opening hymn of praise | D |
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| What though our faltering accents fail | G |
| Our captives know their message well | G |
| Our words unbreathed their lips exhale | G |
| And sigh more love than ours can tell | G |
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| April | G |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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