To A Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IJKK LLMM| The greatest poem ever known | A |
| Is one all poets have outgrown | A |
| The poetry innate untold | B |
| Of being only four years old | B |
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| Still young enough to be a part | C |
| Of Nature's great impulsive heart | C |
| Born comrade of bird beast and tree | D |
| And unselfconscious as the bee | D |
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| And yet with lovely reason skilled | E |
| Each day new paradise to build | E |
| Elate explorer of each sense | F |
| Without dismay without pretense | F |
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| In your unstained transparent eyes | G |
| There is no conscience no surprise | G |
| Life's queer conundrums you accept | H |
| Your strange divinity still kept | H |
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| Being that now absorbs you all | I |
| Harmonious unit integral | J |
| Will shred into perplexing bits | K |
| Oh contradictions of the wits | K |
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| And Life that sets all things in rhyme | L |
| may make you poet too in time | L |
| But there were days O tender elf | M |
| When you were Poetry itself | M |
Christopher Morley
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