Birthdays Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB DEDEFGFG AHAHIBIB JBJBKAKA| Let us have birthdays every day | A |
| I had the thought while I was shaving | B |
| Because a birthday should be gay | A |
| And full of grace and good behaving | B |
| We can't have cakes and candles bright | C |
| And presents are beyond our giving | B |
| But let lt us cherish with delight | C |
| The birthday way of lovely living | B |
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| For I have passed three score and ten | D |
| And I can count upon my fingers | E |
| The years I hope to bide with men | D |
| Though by God's grace one often lingers | E |
| So in the summers left to me | F |
| Because I'm blest beyond my merit | G |
| I hope with gratitude and glee | F |
| To sparkle with the birthday spirit | G |
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| Let me inform myself each day | A |
| Who's proudmost on the natal roster | H |
| If Washington or Henry Clay | A |
| Or Eugene Field or Stephen Foster | H |
| oh lots of famous folks I'll find | I |
| Who more than measure to my rating | B |
| And so thanksgivingly inclined | I |
| Their birthdays I'll be celebrating | B |
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| For Oh I know the cheery glow | J |
| Of Anniversary rejoicing | B |
| Let me reflect its radiance so | J |
| My daily gladness I'll be voicing | B |
| And though I'm stooped and silver haired | K |
| Let me with laughter make the hearth gay | A |
| So by the gods I may be spared | K |
| Each year to hear Pop Happy Birthday | A |
Robert Service
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