A Young Child And His Pregnant Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AB AC AC AA CD EF CF GG HH AA II JAJ

At four years Nature is mountainousA
Mysterious and submarine EvenB
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A city child knows this hearing the subway'sA
Rumor underground Between the grateC
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Dropping his penny he learned out all lossA
The irretrievable cent of fateC
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And now this newest of the mysteriesA
Confronts his honest and his studious eyesA
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His mother much too fat and absentmindedC
Gazing past his face careless of himD
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His fume his charm his bedtime and warm milkE
As soon the night will be too dark the springF
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Too late desire strange and time too fastC
This estrangement is a gradual thingF
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His mother once so svelte so often sickG
Towering father did this what a trickG
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Explained to cautiously containing fearH
Another being's being becoming dearH
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All men are enemies thus even brothersA
Can separate each other from their mothersA
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No better example than this unborn brotherI
Shall teach him of his exile from his motherI
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Measured by his distance from the skyJ
Spoken in two vowelsA
I am IJ

Delmore Schwartz



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