The Anniversary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH FIFIDJDJ| This bunch of violets he said | A |
| Is for my daughter dear | B |
| Since that glad morn when she was wed | A |
| It is today a year | B |
| She lives atop this flight of stairs | C |
| Please give an arm to me | D |
| If we can take her unawares | C |
| How glad she'll be | D |
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| We climbed the stairs the flight was four | E |
| Our steps were stiff and slow | F |
| But as he reached his daughter's door | E |
| His eyes were all aglow | F |
| Joylike he raised his hand to knock | G |
| Then sore distressed was I | H |
| For from the silence like a shock | G |
| I heard a cry | H |
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| A drunken curse a sob of woe | F |
| His withered face grew grey | I |
| I think said he we'd better go | F |
| And come another day | I |
| And as he went a block with me | D |
| Walking with weary feet | J |
| His violets I sighed to see | D |
| Bestrewed the street | J |
Robert William Service
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