Comparisons Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD EFEFEF GHGIGH JHJHJH KLKLKL HBHBHB| CHILD when they say that others | A |
| Have been or are like you | B |
| Babes fit to be your brothers | A |
| Sweet human drops of dew | B |
| Bright fruit of mortal mothers | A |
| What should one say or do | B |
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| We know the thought is treason | C |
| We feel the dream absurd | D |
| A claim rebuked of reason | C |
| That withers at a word | D |
| For never shone the season | C |
| That bore so blithe a bird | D |
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| Some smiles may seem as merry | E |
| Some glances gleam as wise | F |
| From lips as like a cherry | E |
| And scarce less gracious eyes | F |
| Eyes browner than a berry | E |
| Lips red as morning's rise | F |
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| But never yet rang laughter | G |
| So sweet in gladdened ears | H |
| Through wall and floor and rafter | G |
| As all this household hears | I |
| And rings response thereafter | G |
| Till cloudiest weather clears | H |
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| When those your chosen of all men | J |
| Whose honey never cloys | H |
| Two lights whose smiles enthrall men | J |
| Were called at your age boys | H |
| Those mighty men while small men | J |
| Could make no merrier noise | H |
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| Our Shakespeare surely daffed not | K |
| More lightly pain aside | L |
| From radiant lips that quaffed not | K |
| Of forethought's tragic tide | L |
| Our Dickens doubtless laughed not | K |
| More loud with life's first pride | L |
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| The dawn were not more cheerless | H |
| With neither light nor dew | B |
| Than we without the fearless | H |
| Clear laugh that thrills us through | B |
| If ever child stood peerless | H |
| Love knows that child is you | B |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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