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