My Birth-day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCDEDEFGHGIJIJKLKLMN MNOHOFPPQJQJRARAMy birth day what a different sound | A |
That word had in my youthful ears | B |
And how each time the day comes round | A |
Less and less white its mark appears | B |
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When first our scanty years are told | C |
It seems like pastime to grow old | C |
And as Youth counts the shining links | D |
That Time around him binds so fast | E |
Pleased with the task he little thinks | D |
How hard that chain will press at last | E |
Vain was the man and false as vain | F |
Who said were he ordained to run | G |
His long career of life again | H |
He would do all that he had done | G |
Ah 'tis not thus the voice that dwells | I |
In sober birth days speaks to me | J |
Far otherwise of time it tells | I |
Lavished unwisely carelessly | J |
Of counsel mockt of talents made | K |
Haply for high and pure designs | L |
But oft like Israel's incense laid | K |
Upon unholy earthly shrines | L |
Of nursing many a wrong desire | M |
Of wandering after Love too far | N |
And taking every meteor fire | M |
That crost my pathway for his star | N |
All this it tells and could I trace | O |
The imperfect picture o'er again | H |
With power to add retouch efface | O |
The lights and shades the joy and pain | F |
How little of the past would stay | P |
How quickly all should melt away | P |
All but that Freedom of the Mind | Q |
Which hath been more than wealth to me | J |
Those friendships in my boyhood twined | Q |
And kept till now unchangingly | J |
And that dear home that saving ark | R |
Where Love's true light at last I've found | A |
Cheering within when all grows dark | R |
And comfortless and stormy round | A |
Thomas Moore
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