A Living Picture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJKLMN OPQRSTUTPVRTRWTXYZA2 TB2C2 D2TE2E2TE2VF2VG2RAE2 TR| No I'll not say your name I have said it now | A |
| As you mine first in childish treble then | B |
| Up through a score and more familiar years | C |
| Till baby voices mock us Time may come | D |
| When your tall sons look down on our white hair | E |
| Amused to hear us call each other thus | F |
| And question us about the old old days | G |
| The far off days the days when we were young | H |
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| How distant do they seem and yet how near | I |
| Now as I lie and watch you come and go | J |
| With garden basket in your hand in gown | K |
| Just girdled and brown curls that girl like fall | L |
| And straw hat flapping in the April breeze | M |
| I could forget this lapse of years start up | N |
| Laughing 'Come let's go play ' | - |
| Well a day friend | O |
| Our play days are all done | P |
| Still let us smile | Q |
| For as you flit about your garden here | R |
| You look like this spring morning on your lips | S |
| An unseen bird sings snatches of gay tunes | T |
| While an embodied music moves your step | U |
| Your free wild springy step like Atala's | T |
| Or Pocahontas careless child o' the sun | P |
| Those Indian beauties I compare you to | V |
| I still your praiser | R |
| Nay nay I'll not praise | T |
| Fair seemeth fairest ignorant 't is fair | R |
| That light incredulous laugh is worth a world | W |
| That laugh with childish echoes | T |
| So then fade | X |
| Mere dream Come true and sweet reality | Y |
| Come dawn of happy wifehood motherhood | Z |
| Ripening to perfect noon Come peaceful round | A2 |
| Of simple joys fond duties gladsome cares | T |
| When each full hour drops bliss with liberal hand | B2 |
| Yet leaves to morrow richer than to day | C2 |
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| Will you sit here the grass is summer warm | D2 |
| Look at those children making daisy chains | T |
| So did we too do you mind That eldest lad | E2 |
| He has your very mouth Yet you will have 't | E2 |
| His eyes are like his father's Perhaps so | T |
| They could not be more dark and deep and kind | E2 |
| Do you know this hour I have been fancying you | V |
| A poet's dream and almost sighed to think | F2 |
| There was no poet to praise you | V |
| Why you're flown | G2 |
| After those mad elves in the flower beds there | R |
| Ha ha you're no dream now | A |
| Well well so best | E2 |
| My eyelids droop content o'er moistened eyes | T |
| I would not have you other than you are | R |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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