To My Daughter[1] On Her Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB DDDEFFFE GGGHGGGH| Dear Fanny nine long years ago | A |
| While yet the morning sun was low | A |
| And rosy with the Eastern glow | A |
| The landscape smiled | B |
| Whilst lowed the newly waken'd herds | C |
| Sweet as the early song of birds | C |
| I heard those first delightful words | C |
| Thou hast a Child | B |
| - | |
| Along with that uprising dew | D |
| Tears glisten'd in my eyes though few | D |
| To hail a dawning quite as new | D |
| To me as Time | E |
| It was not sorrow not annoy | F |
| But like a happy maid though coy | F |
| With grief like welcome even Joy | F |
| Forestalls its prime | E |
| - | |
| So mayst thou live dear many years | G |
| In all the bliss that life endears | G |
| Not without smiles nor yet from tears | G |
| Too strictly kept | H |
| When first thy infant littleness | G |
| I folded in my fond caress | G |
| The greatest proof of happiness | G |
| Was this I wept | H |
Thomas Hood
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