A Child's Future Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE FFF AAA| What will it please you my darling hereafter to be | A |
| Fame upon land will you look for or glory by sea | A |
| Gallant your life will be always and all of it free | A |
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| Free as the wind when the heart of the twilight is stirred | B |
| Eastward and sounds from the springs of the sunrise are heard | B |
| Free and we know not another as infinite word | B |
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| Darkness or twilight or sunlight may compass us round | C |
| Hate may arise up against us or hope may confound | C |
| Love may forsake us yet may not the spirit be bound | C |
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| Free in oppression of grief as in ardour of joy | D |
| Still may the soul be and each to her strength as a toy | D |
| Free in the glance of the man as the smile of the boy | D |
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| Freedom alone is the salt and the spirit that gives | E |
| Life and without her is nothing that verily lives | E |
| Death cannot slay her she laughs upon death and forgives | E |
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| Brightest and hardiest of roses anear and afar | F |
| Glitters the blithe little face of you round as a star | F |
| Liberty bless you and keep you to be as you are | F |
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| England and liberty bless you and keep you to be | A |
| Worthy the name of their child and the sight of their sea | A |
| Fear not at all for a slave if he fears not is free | A |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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