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