Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABABCDCAD EFEFGDGHD IJIJKDKLD| th January | A |
| - | |
| I thank whatever gods may be | A |
| For all the happiness that's mine | B |
| That I am festive fit and free | A |
| To savour women wit and wine | B |
| That I may game of golf enjoy | C |
| And have a formidable drive | D |
| In short that I'm a gay old boy | C |
| Though I be | A |
| Seventy and five | D |
| - | |
| My daughter thinks because I'm old | E |
| I'm not a crock when all is said | F |
| I mustn't let my feet get cold | E |
| And should wear woollen socks in bed | F |
| A worsted night cap too forsooth | G |
| To humour her I won't contrive | D |
| A man is in his second youth | G |
| When he is | H |
| Seventy and five | D |
| - | |
| At four score years old age begins | I |
| And not till then I warn my wife | J |
| At eighty I'll recant my sins | I |
| And live a staid and sober life | J |
| But meantime let me whoop it up | K |
| And tell the world that I'm alive | D |
| Fill to the brim the bubbly cup | K |
| Here's health to | L |
| Seventy and five | D |
Robert Service
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