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 mountainous | A |
| Mysterious and submarine Even | B |
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| A city child knows this hearing the subway's | A |
| Rumor underground Between the grate | C |
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| Dropping his penny he learned out all loss | A |
| The irretrievable cent of fate | C |
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| And now this newest of the mysteries | A |
| Confronts his honest and his studious eyes | A |
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| His mother much too fat and absentminded | C |
| Gazing past his face careless of him | D |
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| His fume his charm his bedtime and warm milk | E |
| As soon the night will be too dark the spring | F |
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| Too late desire strange and time too fast | C |
| This estrangement is a gradual thing | F |
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| His mother once so svelte so often sick | G |
| Towering father did this what a trick | G |
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| Explained to cautiously containing fear | H |
| Another being's being becoming dear | H |
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| All men are enemies thus even brothers | A |
| Can separate each other from their mothers | A |
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| No better example than this unborn brother | I |
| Shall teach him of his exile from his mother | I |
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| Measured by his distance from the sky | J |
| Spoken in two vowels | A |
| I am I | J |
Delmore Schwartz
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