To My Daughter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LBLB| O little one daughter my dearest | A |
| With your smiles and your beautiful curls | B |
| And your laughter the brightest and clearest | C |
| O gravest and gayest of girls | B |
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| With your hands that are softer than roses | D |
| And your lips that are lighter than flowers | E |
| And that innocent brow that discloses | D |
| A wisdom more lovely than ours | E |
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| With your locks that encumber or scatter | F |
| In a thousand mercurial gleams | G |
| And those feet whose impetuous patter | F |
| I hear and remember in dreams | G |
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| With your manner of motherly duty | H |
| When you play with your dolls and are wise | I |
| With your wonders of speech and the beauty | H |
| In your little imperious eyes | I |
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| When I hear you so silverly ringing | J |
| Your welcome from chamber or stair | K |
| When you run to me kissing and clinging | J |
| So radiant so rosily fair | K |
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| I bend like an ogre above you | L |
| I bury my face in your curls | B |
| I fold you I clasp you I love you | L |
| O baby queen blossom of girls | B |
Archibald Lampman
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