A Child's Laughter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABCCCCB DDDDBEEEEB FFFFDGGGGD| ALL the bells of heaven may ring | A |
| All the birds of heaven may sing | A |
| All the wells on earth may spring | A |
| All the winds on earth may bring | A |
| All sweet sounds together | B |
| Sweeter far than all things heard | C |
| Hand of harper tone of bird | C |
| Sound of woods at sundawn stirred | C |
| Welling water's winsome word | C |
| Wind in warm wan weather | B |
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| One thing yet there is that none | D |
| Hearing ere its chime be done | D |
| Knows not well the sweetest one | D |
| Heard of man beneath the sun | D |
| Hoped in heaven hereafter | B |
| Soft and strong and loud and light | E |
| Very sound of very light | E |
| Heard from morning's rosiest height | E |
| When the soul of all delight | E |
| Fills a child's clear laughter | B |
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| Golden bells of welcome rolled | F |
| Never forth such notes nor told | F |
| Hours so blithe in tones so bold | F |
| As the radiant mouth of gold | F |
| Here that rings forth heaven | D |
| If the golden crested wren | G |
| Were a nightingale why then | G |
| Something seen and heard of men | G |
| Might be half as sweet as when | G |
| Laughs a child of seven | D |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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