Dogs Are Shakespearean, Children Are Strangers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHII IJKELMNNI OPQKRESETIA

Dogs are Shakespearean children are strangersA
Let Freud and Wordsworth discuss the childB
Angels and Platonists shall judge the dogC
The running dog who paused distending nostrilsD
Then barked and wailed the boy who pinched his sisterE
The little girl who sang the song from Twelfth NightF
As if she understood the wind and rainG
The dog who moaned hearing the violins in concertH
O I am sad when I see dogs or childrenI
For they are strangers they are ShakespeareanI
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Tell us Freud can it be that lovely childrenI
Have merely ugly dreams of natural functionsJ
And you too Wordsworth are children trulyK
Clouded with glory learned in dark NatureE
The dog in humble inquiry along the groundL
The child who credits dreams and fears the darkM
Know more and less than you they know full wellN
Nor dream nor childhood answer questions wellN
You too are strangers children are ShakespeareanI
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Regard the child regard the animalO
Welcome strangers but study daily thingsP
Knowing that heaven and hell surround usQ
But this this which we say before we re sorryK
This which we live behind our unseen facesR
Is neither dream nor childhood neitherE
Myth nor landscape final nor finishedS
For we are incomplete and know no futureE
And we are howling or dancing out our soulsT
In beating syllables before the curtainI
We are Shakespearean we are strangersA

Delmore Schwartz



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