The Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD BBBBEEFC GGHHIIJJ BBBBBBBB KKLLBBMM NNOOPPBB| Sweetheart where all the dancing joys compete | A |
| Take now your choice the world is at your feet | A |
| All turned into a gay and shining pleasance | B |
| And every face has smiles to greet your presence | B |
| Treading on air | C |
| Yourself you look more fair | C |
| And the dear Birthday elves unseen conspire | D |
| To flush your cheeks and set your eyes on fire | D |
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| Mayhap they whisper what a birthday means | B |
| That sets you spinning through your pretty teens | B |
| A slim grown shape adorned with golden shimmers | B |
| Of tossing hair that streams and waves and glimmers | B |
| Lo how you run | E |
| In mere excess of fun | E |
| Or change to silence as you stand and hear | F |
| Some kind old tale that moves you to a tear | C |
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| And since this is your own bright day my dear | G |
| Of all the days that gem the sparkling year | G |
| See we have picked as well as we were able | H |
| And set your gifts upon your own small table | H |
| A knife from John | I |
| Who straightway thereupon | I |
| Lest you should cut your friendship for the boy | J |
| Receives a halfpenny and departs with joy | J |
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| The burnished inkstand was your mother's choice | B |
| For six new handkerchiefs I gave my voice | B |
| Having in view your tender little nose's | B |
| Soft comfort and the agate pen is Rosie's | B |
| The torch is Peg's | B |
| Guide for your errant legs | B |
| When ways are dark and last behold with these | B |
| A pencil from your faithful Pekinese | B |
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| And now the mysteries are all revealed | K |
| That were so long so ardently concealed | K |
| All save the cake which still is in the making | L |
| Not yet smooth iced and unprepared for taking | L |
| The thirteen flames | B |
| That start the noisy games | B |
| Of tea time when my happy little maid | M |
| Thrones it triumphant teened and unafraid | M |
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| So through the changing years may all delight | N |
| Live in your face and make your being bright | N |
| May the good sprites and busy fays befriend you | O |
| And cheerful thoughts and innocent defend you | O |
| And far away | P |
| From this most joyous day | P |
| When in the chambers of your mind you see | B |
| Those who have loved you then remember me | B |
R. C. Lehmann
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