A Child-s Smile Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHGH IJIJ KCKA JLJL| A CHILD'S smile nothing more | A |
| Quiet and soft and grave and seldom seen | B |
| Like summer lightning o'er | C |
| Leaving the little face again serene | B |
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| I think boy well beloved | D |
| Thine angel who did grieve to see how far | E |
| Thy childhood is removed | F |
| From sports that dear to other children are | E |
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| On this pale cheek has thrown | G |
| The brightness of his countenance and made | H |
| A beauty like his own | G |
| That while we see it we are half afraid | H |
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| And marvel will it stay | I |
| Or long ere manhood will that angel fair | J |
| Departing some sad day | I |
| Steal the child smile and leave the shadow care | J |
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| Nay fear not As is given | K |
| Unto this child the father watching o'er | C |
| His angel up in heaven | K |
| Beholds Our Father's face for evermore | A |
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| And he will help him bear | J |
| His burthen as his father helps him now | L |
| So may he come to wear | J |
| That happy child smile on an old man's brow | L |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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