Verses Iii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDD EEFFGGHHIIJJKKLLMNOO| Written by the same lady on seeing her two sons | A |
| at play | B |
| SWEET age of bless'd delusion blooming boys | C |
| Ah revel long in childhood's thoughtless joys | C |
| With light and pliant spirits that can stoop | D |
| To follow sportively the rolling hoop | D |
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| To watch the sleeping top with gay delight | E |
| Or mark with raptured gaze the sailing kite | E |
| Or eagerly pursuing Pleasure's call | F |
| Can find it center'd in the bounding ball | F |
| Alas the day will come when sports like these | G |
| Must lose their magic and their power to please | G |
| Too swiftly fled the rosy hours of youth | H |
| Shall yield their fairy charms to mournful Truth | H |
| Even now a mother's fond prophetic fear | I |
| Sees the dark train of human ills appear | I |
| Views various fortune for each lovely child | J |
| Storms for the bold and anguish for the mild | J |
| Beholds already those expressive eyes | K |
| Beam a sad certainty of future sighs | K |
| And dreads each suffering those dear breasts may know | L |
| In their long passage through a world of woe | L |
| Perchance predestined every pang to prove | M |
| That treacherous friends inflict or faithless love | N |
| For ah how few have found existence sweet | O |
| Where grief is sure but happiness deceit | O |
Charlotte Smith
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