Birth-day Ode 02 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBCDDEE FGFFGF BBHFFFFII FFFFJJKK FFFEFE FFLLGGFF LLMNNM FFOOFFFFPPQQRRFF| Small is the new born plant scarce seen | A |
| Amid the soft encircling green | A |
| Where yonder budding acorn rears | B |
| Just o'er the waving grass its tender head | C |
| Slow pass along the train of years | B |
| And on the growing plant their dews and showers they shed | C |
| Anon it rears aloft its giant form | D |
| And spreads its broad brown arms to meet the storm | D |
| Beneath its boughs far shadowing o'er the plain | E |
| From summer suns repair the grateful village train | E |
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| Nor BEDFORD will my friend survey | F |
| The book of Nature with unheeding eye | G |
| For never beams the rising orb of day | F |
| For never dimly dies the refluent ray | F |
| But as the moralizer marks the sky | G |
| He broods with strange delight upon futurity | F |
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| And we must muse my friend maturer years | B |
| Arise and other Hopes and other Fears | B |
| For we have past the pleasant plains of Youth | H |
| Oh pleasant plains that we might stray | F |
| For ever o'er your faery ground | F |
| For ever roam your vales around | F |
| Nor onward tempt the dangerous way | F |
| For oh what numerous foes assail | I |
| The Traveller from that chearful vale | I |
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| With toil and heaviness opprest | F |
| Seek not the flowery bank for rest | F |
| Tho' there the bowering woodbine spread | F |
| Its fragrant shelter o'er thy head | F |
| Tho' Zephyr there should linger long | J |
| To hear the sky lark's wildly warbled song | J |
| There heedless Youth shalt thou awake | K |
| The vengeance of the coiling snake | K |
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| Tho' fairly smiles the vernal mead | F |
| To tempt thy pilgrim feet proceed | F |
| Hold on thy steady course aright | F |
| Else shalt thou wandering o'er the pathless plain | E |
| When damp and dark descends the night | F |
| Shivering and shelterless repent in vain | E |
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| And yet tho' Dangers lurk on every side | F |
| Receive not WORLDLY WISDOM for thy guide | F |
| Beneath his care thou wilt not know | L |
| The throb of unavailing woe | L |
| No tear shall tremble in thine eye | G |
| Thy breast shall struggle with no sigh | G |
| He will security impart | F |
| But he will apathize thy heart | F |
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| Ah no | L |
| Fly Fly that fatal foe | L |
| Virtue shall shrink from his torpedo grasp | M |
| For not more fatal thro' the Wretches veins | N |
| Benumb'd in Death's cold pains | N |
| Creeps the chill poison of the deadly asp | M |
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| Serener joys my friend await | F |
| Maturer manhood's steady state | F |
| The wild brook bursting from its source | O |
| Meanders on its early course | O |
| Delighting there with winding way | F |
| Amid the vernal vale to stray | F |
| Emerging thence more widely spread | F |
| It foams along its craggy bed | F |
| And shatter'd with the mighty shock | P |
| Rushes from the giddy rock | P |
| Hurl'd headlong o'er the dangerous steep | Q |
| On runs the current to the deep | Q |
| And gathering waters as it goes | R |
| Serene and calm the river flows | R |
| Diffuses plenty o'er the smiling coast | F |
| Rolls on its stately waves and is in ocean lost | F |
Robert Southey
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