The Ballad Of The Children Of The Czar Poem Rhyme Scheme

Recent Interactions*

This poem was read 0 times,

This poem was added to the favorite list by 0 members,

This poem was voted by 0 members.

(* Interactions only in the last 7 days)

New Poems

Wonderful Women
by Umaru Kanneh Boima
Freedom To Scratch In Peace
by Olute Aete
Happy New Year
by Felix Menda
Human Beings
by Dana Graslie
Lust
by Wisdom Greatness
An Isolated Tree's Song
by Sayeed Abubakar
A Strange Boy
by Sayeed Abubakar
O Soil
by Sayeed Abubakar
No War, No War-monger
by Sayeed Abubakar
Night's Town
by Sayeed Abubakar

Popular Poets

1. Emily Dickinson(2414 poems)
2. Madison Julius Cawein(1231 poems)
3. Ella Wheeler Wilcox(1136 poems)
4. William Wordsworth(1016 poems)
5. Robert Burns(986 poems)
6. Edgar Albert Guest(945 poems)
7. Thomas Moore(849 poems)
8. Robert Service(831 poems)

	A
	-
The children of the Czar	B
Played with a bouncing ball	C
	-
In the May morning in the Czar's garden	D
Tossing it back and forth	E
	-
It fell among the flowerbeds	F
Or fled to the north gate	G
	-
A daylight moon hung up	H
In the Western sky bald white	I
	-
Like Papa's face said Sister	J
Hurling the white ball forth	E
	-
	-
	-
While I ate a baked potato	K
Six thousand miles apart	L
	-
In Brooklyn in	M
Aged two irrational	N
	-
When Franklin D Roosevelt	O
Was an Arrow Collar ad	P
	-
O Nicholas Alas Alas	F
My grandfather coughed in your army	Q
	-
Hid in a wine stinking barrel	N
For three days in Bucharest	R
	-
Then left for America	S
To become a king himself	T
	-
	-
	-
I am my father's father	J
You are your children's guilt	U
	-
In history's pity and terror	J
The child is Aeneas again	V
	-
Troy is in the nursery	Q
The rocking horse is on fire	J
	-
Child labor The child must carry	Q
His fathers on his back	W
	-
But seeing that so much is past	X
And that history has no ruth	Y
	-
For the individual	N
Who drinks tea who catches cold	Z
	-
Let anger be general	N
I hate an abstract thing	A2
	-
	-
	-
Brother and sister bounced	B2
The bounding unbroken ball	C
	-
The shattering sun fell down	C2
Like swords upon their play	D2
	-
Moving eastward among the stars	F
Toward February and October	J
	-
But the Maywind brushed their cheeks	F
Like a mother watching sleep	E2
	-
And if for a moment they fight	I
Over the bouncing ball	C
	-
And sister pinches brother	J
And brother kicks her shins	F
	-
Well The heart of man in known	F2
It is a cactus bloom	G2
	-
	-
	-
The ground on which the ball bounces	F
Is another bouncing ball	C
	-
The wheeling whirling world	H2
Makes no will glad	P
	-
Spinning in its spotlight darkness	F
It is too big for their hands	F
	-
A pitiless purposeless Thing	A2
Arbitrary and unspent	I2
	-
Made for no play for no children	D
But chasing only itself	T
	-
The innocent are overtaken	D
They are not innocent	J2
	-
They are their father's fathers	F
The past is inevitable	N
	-
	-
	-
Now in another October	J
Of this tragic star	B
	-
I see my second year	K2
I eat my baked potato	K
	-
It is my buttered world	H2
But poked by my unlearned hand	L2
	-
It falls from the highchair down	C2
And I begin to howl	M2
	-
And I see the ball roll under	J
The iron gate which is locked	N2
	-
Sister is screaming brother is howling	A2
The ball has evaded their will	O2
	-
Even a bouncing ball	C
Is uncontrollable	N
	-
And is under the garden wall	C
I am overtaken by terror	J
	-
Thinking of my father's fathers	F
And of my own will	O2

Delmore Schwartz

The Ballad Of The Children Of The Czar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Write your comment about The Ballad Of The Children Of The Czar poem by Delmore Schwartz

Recent Interactions*

New Poems

Popular Poets