The Toys Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCCDCDCCEECFEFGGC CCCHHIICCJKKL| My little Son who look'd from thoughtful eyes | A |
| And moved and spoke in quiet grown up wise | A |
| Having my law the seventh time disobey'd | B |
| I struck him and dismiss'd | C |
| With hard words and unkiss'd | C |
| His Mother who was patient being dead | C |
| Then fearing lest his grief should hinder sleep | D |
| I visited his bed | C |
| But found him slumbering deep | D |
| With darken'd eyelids and their lashes yet | C |
| From his late sobbing wet | C |
| And I with moan | E |
| Kissing away his tears left others of my own | E |
| For on a table drawn beside his head | C |
| He had put within his reach | F |
| A box of counters and a red vein'd stone | E |
| A piece of glass abraded by the beach | F |
| And six or seven shells | G |
| A bottle with bluebells | G |
| And two French copper coins ranged there with careful art | C |
| To comfort his sad heart | C |
| So when that night I pray'd | C |
| To God I wept and said | C |
| Ah when at last we lie with tranc egrave d breath | H |
| Not vexing Thee in death | H |
| And Thou rememberest of what toys | I |
| We made our joys | I |
| How weakly understood | C |
| Thy great commanded good | C |
| Then fatherly not less | J |
| Than I whom Thou hast moulded from the clay | K |
| Thou'lt leave Thy wrath and say | K |
| 'I will be sorry for their childishness ' | L |
Coventry Patmore
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