Not A Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA BCB CBCB D EBEB BEB EBEB D FCFC CFC FCFC| 'Not a child I call myself a boy ' | A |
| Says my king with accent stern yet mild | B |
| Now nine years have brought him change of joy | C |
| 'Not a child ' | A |
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| How could reason be so far beguiled | B |
| Err so far from sense's safe employ | C |
| Stray so wide of truth or run so wild | B |
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| Seeing his face bent over book or toy | C |
| Child I called him smiling but he smiled | B |
| Back as one too high for vain annoy | C |
| Not a child | B |
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| II | D |
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| Not a child alack the year | E |
| What should ail an undefiled | B |
| Heart that he would fain appear | E |
| Not a child | B |
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| Men with years and memories piled | B |
| Each on other far and near | E |
| Fain again would so be styled | B |
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| Fain would cast off hope and fear | E |
| Rest forget be reconciled | B |
| Why would you so fain be dear | E |
| Not a child | B |
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| III | D |
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| Child or boy my darling which you will | F |
| Still your praise finds heart and song employ | C |
| Heart and song both yearning toward you still | F |
| Child or boy | C |
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| All joys else might sooner pall or cloy | C |
| Love than this which inly takes its fill | F |
| Dear of sight of your more perfect joy | C |
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| Nay be aught you please let all fulfil | F |
| All your pleasure be your world your toy | C |
| Mild or wild we love you loud or still | F |
| Child or boy | C |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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