Dogs Are Shakespearean, Children Are Strangers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHII IJKELMNNI OPQKRESETIADogs are Shakespearean children are strangers | A |
Let Freud and Wordsworth discuss the child | B |
Angels and Platonists shall judge the dog | C |
The running dog who paused distending nostrils | D |
Then barked and wailed the boy who pinched his sister | E |
The little girl who sang the song from Twelfth Night | F |
As if she understood the wind and rain | G |
The dog who moaned hearing the violins in concert | H |
O I am sad when I see dogs or children | I |
For they are strangers they are Shakespearean | I |
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Tell us Freud can it be that lovely children | I |
Have merely ugly dreams of natural functions | J |
And you too Wordsworth are children truly | K |
Clouded with glory learned in dark Nature | E |
The dog in humble inquiry along the ground | L |
The child who credits dreams and fears the dark | M |
Know more and less than you they know full well | N |
Nor dream nor childhood answer questions well | N |
You too are strangers children are Shakespearean | I |
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Regard the child regard the animal | O |
Welcome strangers but study daily things | P |
Knowing that heaven and hell surround us | Q |
But this this which we say before we re sorry | K |
This which we live behind our unseen faces | R |
Is neither dream nor childhood neither | E |
Myth nor landscape final nor finished | S |
For we are incomplete and know no future | E |
And we are howling or dancing out our souls | T |
In beating syllables before the curtain | I |
We are Shakespearean we are strangers | A |
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