Today is all about word play and rhymes to celebrate the birthday of English artist and ... which dates back more than 500 years, is a poem that contains five lines that rhyme in an AABBA structure.

Today’s poem, “A Birthday,” however, with its tetrameter lines and its complex abcbdcec rhyming pattern, gives us Rossetti — self-characterized as “calm and sedate” — in a lyric outburst of intensely ...