To T.l.h. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDAAEEFFGGHHIDJJ KKLLMMNOPPQQRRSSTTUU VVJJ AA| A CHILD | A |
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| Model of thy parent dear | B |
| Serious infant worth a fear | B |
| In thy unfaultering visage well | C |
| Picturing forth the son of Tell | C |
| When on his forehead firm and good | D |
| Motionless mark the apple stood | D |
| Guileless traitor rebel mild | A |
| Convict unconscious culprit child | A |
| Gates that close with iron roar | E |
| Have been to thee thy nursery door | E |
| Chains that chink in cheerless cells | F |
| Have been thy rattles and thy bells | F |
| Walls contrived for giant sin | G |
| Have hemmed thy faultless weakness in | G |
| Near thy sinless bed black Guilt | H |
| Her discordant house hath built | H |
| And filled it with her monstrous brood | I |
| Sights by thee not understood | D |
| Sights of fear and of distress | J |
| That pass a harmless infant's guess | J |
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| But the clouds that overcast | K |
| Thy young morning may not last | K |
| Soon shall arrive the rescuing hour | L |
| That yields thee up to Nature's power | L |
| Nature that so late doth greet thee | M |
| Shall in o'er flowing measure meet thee | M |
| She shall recompense with cost | N |
| For every lesson thou hast lost | O |
| Then wandering up thy sire's lov'd hill | P |
| Thou shalt take thy airy fill | P |
| Of health and pastime Birds shall sing | Q |
| For thy delight each May morning | Q |
| 'Mid new yean'd lambkins thou shalt play | R |
| Hardly less a lamb than they | R |
| Then thy prison's lengthened bound | S |
| Shall be the horizon skirting round | S |
| And while thou fill'st thy lap with flowers | T |
| To make amends for wintery hours | T |
| The breeze the sunshine and the place | U |
| Shall from thy tender brow efface | U |
| Each vestige of untimely care | V |
| That sour restraint had graven there | V |
| And on thy every look impress | J |
| A more excelling childishness | J |
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| So shall be thy days beguil'd | A |
| Thornton Hunt my favourite child | A |
Charles Lamb
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