The Poet's Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE FGHGIJJI KGKGLMNL KBKBOOOL LLLLPOPO QRQRLSLS| Lines addressed to the daughter of Richard Dalton Williams | A |
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| Child of the heart of a child of sweetest song | B |
| The poet's blood flows through thy fresh pure veins | C |
| Dost ever hear faint echoes float along | B |
| Thy days and dreams of thy dead father's strains | C |
| Dost ever hear | D |
| In mournful times | E |
| With inner ear | D |
| The strange sweet cadences of thy father's rhymes | E |
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| Child of a child of art which Heaven doth give | F |
| To few to very few as unto him | G |
| His songs are wandering o'er the world but live | H |
| In his child's heart in some place lone and dim | G |
| And nights and days | I |
| With vestal's eyes | J |
| And soundless sighs | J |
| Thou keepest watch above thy father's lays | I |
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| Child of a dreamer of dreams all unfulfilled | K |
| And thou art child a living dream of him | G |
| Dost ever feel thy spirit all enthrilled | K |
| With his lost dreams when summer days wane dim | G |
| When suns go down | L |
| Thou song of the dead singer | M |
| Dost sigh at eve and grieve | N |
| O'er the brow that paled before it won the crown | L |
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| Child of the patriot Oh how he loved his land | K |
| And how he moaned o'er Erin's ev'ry wrong | B |
| Child of the singer he swept with purest hand | K |
| The octaves of all agonies until his song | B |
| Sobbed o'er the sea | O |
| And now through thee | O |
| It cometh to me | O |
| Like a shadow song from some Gethsemane | L |
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| Child of the wanderer and his heart the shrine | L |
| Where three loves blended into only one | L |
| His God's thy mother's and his country's and 'tis thine | L |
| To be the living ray of such a glorious sun | L |
| His genius gleams | P |
| My child within thee | O |
| And dim thy dreams | P |
| As stars on the midnight sea | O |
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| Child of thy father I have read his songs | Q |
| Thou art the sweetest song he ever sung | R |
| Peaceful as Psalms but when his country's wrongs | Q |
| Swept o'er his heart he stormed And he was young | R |
| He died too soon | L |
| So men will say | S |
| Before he reached Fame's noon | L |
| His songs are letters in a book thou art their ray | S |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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