A Child's Thanks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACCAB AAAADDAA EFGGHHEF GAGGHHGA AEEEIIAE JKGGLLJK| How low soe'er men rank us | A |
| How high soe'er we win | B |
| The children far above us | A |
| Dwell and they deign to love us | A |
| With lovelier love than ours | C |
| And smiles more sweet than flowers | C |
| As though the sun should thank us | A |
| For letting light come in | B |
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| With too divine complaisance | A |
| Whose grace misleads them thus | A |
| Being gods in heavenly blindness | A |
| They call our worship kindness | A |
| Our pebble gift a gem | D |
| They think us good to them | D |
| Whose glance whose breath whose presence | A |
| Are gifts too good for us | A |
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| The poet high and hoary | E |
| Of meres that mountains bind | F |
| Felt his great heart more often | G |
| Yearn and its proud strength soften | G |
| From stern to tenderer mood | H |
| At thought of gratitude | H |
| Shown than of song or story | E |
| He heard of hearts unkind | F |
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| But with what words for token | G |
| And what adoring tears | A |
| Of reverence risen to passion | G |
| In what glad prostrate fashion | G |
| Of spirit and soul subdued | H |
| May man show gratitude | H |
| For thanks of children spoken | G |
| That hover in his ears | A |
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| The angels laugh your brothers | A |
| Child hearing you thank me | E |
| With eyes whence night grows sunny | E |
| And touch of lips like honey | E |
| And words like honey dew | I |
| But how shall I thank you | I |
| For gifts above all others | A |
| What guerdon gift may be | E |
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| What wealth of words caressing | J |
| What choice of songs found best | K |
| Would seem not as derision | G |
| Found vain beside the vision | G |
| And glory from above | L |
| Shown in a child's heart's love | L |
| His part in life is blessing | J |
| Ours only to be blest | K |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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