At A Birthday Festival Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK BLBL M| TO J R LOWELL | A |
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| WE will not speak of years to night | B |
| For what have years to bring | C |
| But larger floods of love and light | B |
| And sweeter songs to sing | C |
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| We will not drown in wordy praise | D |
| The kindly thoughts that rise | E |
| If Friendship own one tender phrase | D |
| He reads it in our eyes | E |
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| We need not waste our school boy art | F |
| To gild this notch of Time | G |
| Forgive me if my wayward heart | F |
| Has throbbed in artless rhyme | G |
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| Enough for him the silent grasp | H |
| That knits us hand in hand | I |
| And he the bracelet's radiant clasp | H |
| That locks our circling band | I |
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| Strength to his hours of manly toil | J |
| Peace to his starlit dreams | K |
| Who loves alike the furrowed soil | J |
| The music haunted streams | K |
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| Sweet smiles to keep forever bright | B |
| The sunshine on his lips | L |
| And faith that sees the ring of light | B |
| Round nature's last eclipse | L |
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| February | M |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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