Eighteen. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABC DEFGEH IJKIJK LJMLJM| Ah grown a dim and fairy shade | A |
| Dear child who fifteen years ago | B |
| Out of our arms escaped and fled | C |
| With swift white feet as if afraid | A |
| To hide beneath the grass the snow | B |
| that sunny little head | C |
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| This is your birthday Fair so fair | D |
| And grown to gracious maiden height | E |
| And versed in heavenly lore and ways | F |
| White vested as the angels are | G |
| In very light of very light | E |
| Somehow somewhere you keep the day | H |
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| With those new friends whom new we call | I |
| But who are dearer now than we | J |
| And better known by fate and name | K |
| And do they smile and say How tall | I |
| The child becomes how radiant she | J |
| Who was so little when she came | K |
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| Darling we count your eighteen years | L |
| Fifteen in Heaven on earth but three | J |
| And try to frame you grown and wise | M |
| But all in vain there still appears | L |
| Only the child you used to be | J |
| Our baby with the violet eyes | M |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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