Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFFGHIBJKLMBNO B| Mother let me congratulate you on | A |
| the birthday of your son | B |
| You worry so much about him Here he lies | C |
| he earns little his marriage was unwise | C |
| he's long he's getting thin he hasn't shaved | D |
| Oh what a miserable loving gaze | E |
| I should congratulate you if I may | F |
| mother on your worry's birthday | F |
| It was from you he inherited | G |
| devotion without pity to this age | H |
| and arrogant and awkward in his faith | I |
| from you he took his faith the Revolution | B |
| You didn't make him prosperous or famous | J |
| and fearlessness is his only talent | K |
| Open up his windows | L |
| let in the twittering in the leafy branches | M |
| kiss his eyes open | B |
| Give him his notebook and his ink bottle | N |
| give him a drink of milk and watch him go | O |
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| from Selected Poems Penguin | B |
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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