Child's Talk In April Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD EFEFF GHGHG IJIJJ KKLKL MNMNN OPOPP QQRQA| I wish you were a pleasant wren | A |
| And I your small accepted mate | B |
| How we'd look down on toilsome men | A |
| We'd rise and go to bed at eight | B |
| Or it may be not quite so late | B |
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| Then you should see the nest I'd build | C |
| The wondrous nest for you and me | D |
| The outside rough perhaps but filled | C |
| With wool and down ah you should see | D |
| The cosey nest that it would be | D |
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| We'd have our change of hope and fear | E |
| Small quarrels reconcilements sweet | F |
| I'd perch by you to chirp and cheer | E |
| Or hop about on active feet | F |
| And fetch you dainty bits to eat | F |
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| We'd be so happy by the day | G |
| So safe and happy through the night | H |
| We both should feel and I should say | G |
| It's all one season of delight | H |
| And we'll make merry whilst we may | G |
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| Perhaps some day there'd be an egg | I |
| When spring had blossomed from the snow | J |
| I'd stand triumphant on one leg | I |
| Like chanticleer I'd almost crow | J |
| To let our little neighbors know | J |
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| Next you should sit and I would sing | K |
| Through lengthening days of sunny spring | K |
| Till if you wearied of the task | L |
| I'd sit and you should spread your wing | K |
| From bough to bough I'd sit and bask | L |
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| Fancy the breaking of the shell | M |
| The chirp the chickens wet and bare | N |
| The untried proud paternal swell | M |
| And you with housewife matron air | N |
| Enacting choicer bills of fare | N |
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| Fancy the embryo coats of down | O |
| The gradual feathers soft and sleek | P |
| Till clothed and strong from tail to crown | O |
| With virgin warblings in their beak | P |
| They too go forth to soar and seek | P |
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| So would it last an April through | Q |
| And early summer fresh with dew | Q |
| Then should we part and live as twain | R |
| Love time would bring me back to you | Q |
| And build our happy nest again | A |
Christina Rossetti
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