Lucy-s Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACADA EFFEGHGH IJIJKLML| Seventeen rosebuds in a ring | A |
| Thick with sister flowers beset | B |
| In a fragrant coronet | B |
| Lucy's servants this day bring | A |
| Be it the birthday wreath she wears | C |
| Fresh and fair and symbolling | A |
| The young number of her years | D |
| The sweet blushes of her spring | A |
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| Types of youth and love and hope | E |
| Friendly hearts your mistress greet | F |
| Be you ever fair and sweet | F |
| And grow lovelier as you ope | E |
| Gentle nursling fenced about | G |
| With fond care and guarded so | H |
| Scarce you've heard of storms without | G |
| Frosts that bite or winds that blow | H |
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| Kindly has your life begun | I |
| And we pray that heaven may send | J |
| To our floweret a warm sun | I |
| A calm summer a sweet end | J |
| And where'er shall be her home | K |
| May she decorate the place | L |
| Still expanding into bloom | M |
| And developing in grace | L |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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