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Ninetieth Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECFGHIJKLM CANOPQNRSSETU V

You go up the long trackA
That will take a car but is best walkedB
On slow foot noting the lichenC
That writes history on the pageD
Of the grey rock Trees are about youE
At first but yield to the green brackenC
The nightjars house you can hear it spinF
On warm evenings it is still nowG
In the noonday heat only the lesserH
Voices sound blue fly and gnatI
And the stream's whisper As the road climbsJ
You will pause for breath and the far sea'sK
Signal will flash till you turn againL
To the steep track buttressed with cloudM
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And there at the top that old womanC
Born almost a century backA
In that stone farm awaits your comingN
Waits for the news of the lost villageO
She thinks she knows a place that existsP
In her memory onlyQ
You bring her greetingN
And praise for having lasted so longR
With time's knife shaving the boneS
Yet no bridge joins her ownS
World with yours all you can doE
Is lean kindly across the abyssT
To hear words that were once wiseU
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