Ninetieth Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECFGHIJKLM CANOPQNRSSETU V| You go up the long track | A |
| That will take a car but is best walked | B |
| On slow foot noting the lichen | C |
| That writes history on the page | D |
| Of the grey rock Trees are about you | E |
| At first but yield to the green bracken | C |
| The nightjars house you can hear it spin | F |
| On warm evenings it is still now | G |
| In the noonday heat only the lesser | H |
| Voices sound blue fly and gnat | I |
| And the stream's whisper As the road climbs | J |
| You will pause for breath and the far sea's | K |
| Signal will flash till you turn again | L |
| To the steep track buttressed with cloud | M |
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| And there at the top that old woman | C |
| Born almost a century back | A |
| In that stone farm awaits your coming | N |
| Waits for the news of the lost village | O |
| She thinks she knows a place that exists | P |
| In her memory only | Q |
| You bring her greeting | N |
| And praise for having lasted so long | R |
| With time's knife shaving the bone | S |
| Yet no bridge joins her own | S |
| World with yours all you can do | E |
| Is lean kindly across the abyss | T |
| To hear words that were once wise | U |
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| Submitted by Andrew Mayers | V |
Ronald Stuart Thomas
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