Dogs Are Shakespearean, Children Are Strangers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHII IJKELMNNI OPQKRESETIA| Dogs 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 |
Delmore Schwartz
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