My Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EFEEE GHGGH EIEEI EJEEJ KCKKC| Who is this who gently slips | A |
| Through my door and stands and sighs | B |
| Hovering in a soft eclipse | A |
| With a finger on her lips | A |
| And a meaning in her eyes | B |
| - | |
| Once she came to visit me | C |
| In white robes with festal airs | D |
| Glad surprises songs of glee | C |
| Now in silence cometh she | C |
| And a sombre garb she wears | D |
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| Once I waited and was tired | E |
| Chid her visits as too few | F |
| Crownless now and undesired | E |
| She to seek me is inspired | E |
| Oftener than she used to do | E |
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| Grave her coming is and still | G |
| Sober her appealing mien | H |
| Tender thoughts her glances fill | G |
| But I shudder as one will | G |
| When an open grave is seen | H |
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| Wherefore friend for friend thou art | E |
| Should I wrong thee thus and grieve | I |
| Wherefore push thee from my heart | E |
| Of my morning thou wert part | E |
| Be a part too of my eve | I |
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| See I hold my hand to meet | E |
| That cool shadowy hand of thine | J |
| Hold it firmly it is sweet | E |
| Thus to clasp and thus to greet | E |
| Though no more in full sunshine | J |
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| Come and freely seek my door | K |
| I will open willingly | C |
| I will chide the past no more | K |
| Looking to the things before | K |
| Led by pathways known to thee | C |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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