à?tude Réaliste (excerpts) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBABABAB C DEDEEDFDEDE| A baby's hands like rosebuds furled | A |
| Whence yet no leaf expands | B |
| Ope if you touch though close upcurled | A |
| A baby's hands | B |
| Then fast as warriors grip their brands | B |
| When battle's bolt is hurled | A |
| They close clenched hard like tightening bands | B |
| No rosebuds yet by dawn impearled | A |
| Match even in loveliest lands | B |
| The sweetest flowers in all the world | A |
| A baby's hands | B |
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| III | C |
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| A baby's eyes ere speech begin | D |
| Ere lips learn words or sighs | E |
| Bless all things bright enough to win | D |
| A baby's eyes | E |
| Love while the sweet thing laughs and lies | E |
| And sleep flows out and in | D |
| Sees perfect in them Paradise | F |
| Their glance might cast out pain and sin | D |
| Their speech make dumb the wise | E |
| By mute glad godhead felt within | D |
| A baby's eyes | E |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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