On The Christening Of A Friend's Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HEHE IJIJ KLKM HNHN OPOP QMQM RDRD| This day among the faithful placed | A |
| And fed with fontal manna | B |
| O with maternal title graced | A |
| Dear Anna's dearest Anna | B |
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| While others wish thee wise and fair | C |
| A maid of spotless fame | D |
| I'll breathe this more compendious prayer | C |
| May'st thou deserve thy name | D |
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| Thy mother's name a potent spell | E |
| That bids the virtues hie | F |
| From mystic grove and living cell | E |
| Confess'd to fancy's eye | G |
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| Meek quietness without offence | H |
| Content in homespun kirtle | E |
| True love and true love's innocence | H |
| White blossom of the myrtle | E |
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| Associates of thy name sweet child | I |
| These virtues may'st thou win | J |
| With face as eloquently mild | I |
| To say they lodge within | J |
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| So when her tale of days all flown | K |
| Thy mother shall be mist here | L |
| When Heaven at length shall claim its own | K |
| And angels snatch their sister | M |
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| Some hoary headed friend perchance | H |
| May gaze with stifled breath | N |
| And oft in momentary trance | H |
| Forget the waste of death | N |
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| Ev'n thus a lovely rose I view'd | O |
| In summer swelling pride | P |
| Nor mark'd the bud that green and rude | O |
| Peep'd at the rose's side | P |
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| It chanced I pass'd again that way | Q |
| In autumn's latest hour | M |
| And wond'ring saw the selfsame spray | Q |
| Rich with the selfsame flower | M |
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| Ah fond deceit the rude green bud | R |
| Alike in shape place name | D |
| Had bloom'd where bloom'd its parent stud | R |
| Another and the same | D |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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