Verses To A Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDECCE FGFHIIH EJEJBDK ELELMML NBNBLLB OEOEPQE RHSHTTG UEUEVVE W| A | |
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| O raise those eyes to me again | B |
| And smile again so joyously | C |
| And fear not love it was not pain | D |
| Nor grief that drew these tears from me | E |
| Beloved child thou canst not tell | C |
| The thoughts that in my bosom dwell | C |
| Whene'er I look on thee | E |
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| Thou knowest not that a glance of thine | F |
| Can bring back long departed years | G |
| And that thy blue eyes' magic shine | F |
| Can overflow my own with tears | H |
| And that each feature soft and fair | I |
| And every curl of golden hair | I |
| Some sweet remembrance bears | H |
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| Just then thou didst recall to me | E |
| A distant long forgotten scene | J |
| One smile and one sweet word from thee | E |
| Dispelled the years that rolled between | J |
| I was a little child again | B |
| And every after joy and pain | D |
| Seemed never to have been | K |
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| Tall forest trees waved over me | E |
| To hide me from the heat of day | L |
| And by my side a child like thee | E |
| Among the summer flowerets lay | L |
| He was thy sire thou merry child | M |
| Like thee he spoke like thee he smiled | M |
| Like thee he used to play | L |
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| O those were calm and happy days | N |
| We loved each other fondly then | B |
| But human love too soon decays | N |
| And ours can never bloom again | B |
| I never thought to see the day | L |
| When Florian's friendship would decay | L |
| Like those of colder men | B |
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| Now Flora thou hast but begun | O |
| To sail on life's deceitful sea | E |
| O do not err as I have done | O |
| For I have trusted foolishly | E |
| The faith of every friend I loved | P |
| I never doubted till I proved | Q |
| Their heart's inconstancy | E |
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| 'Tis mournful to look back upon | R |
| Those long departed joys and cares | H |
| But I will weep since thou alone | S |
| Art witness to my streaming tears | H |
| This lingering love will not depart | T |
| I cannot banish from my heart | T |
| The friend of childish years | G |
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| But though thy father loves me not | U |
| Yet I shall still be loved by thee | E |
| And though I am by him forgot | U |
| Say wilt thou not remember me | E |
| I will not cause thy heart to ache | V |
| For thy regretted father's sake | V |
| I'll love and cherish thee | E |
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| Alexandrina Zenobia | W |
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