The Children Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEE FFGG HHII| The children bring us laughter and the children bring us tears | A |
| They string our joys like jewels bright upon the thread of years | B |
| They bring the bitterest cares we know their mothers' sharpest pain | C |
| Then smile our world to loveliness like sunshine after rain | C |
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| The children make us what we are the childless king is spurned | D |
| The children send us to the hills where glories may be earned | D |
| For them we pledge our lives to strife for them do mothers fade | E |
| And count in new born loveliness their sacrifice repaid | E |
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| The children bring us back to God in eyes that dance and shine | F |
| Men read from day to day the proof of love and power divine | F |
| For them are fathers brave and good and mothers fair and true | G |
| For them is every cherished dream and every deed we do | G |
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| For children are the furnace fires of life kept blazing high | H |
| For children on the battle fields are soldiers pleased to die | H |
| In every place where humans toil in every dream and plan | I |
| The laughter of the children shapes the destiny of man | I |
Edgar Albert Guest
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