The Toys Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCCDCDCCEECFEFGGC CCCHHIICCJKKLMy 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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