Childhood Is The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFG HIJKLMNOPQRS ITIE UVWX YZA2IB2CC2D2UE2 MF2G2| Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age | A |
| The child is grown and puts away childish things | B |
| Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies | C |
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| Nobody that matters that is Distant relatives of course | D |
| Die whom one never has seen or has seen for an hour | E |
| And they gave one candy in a pink and green strip d bag or a jack knife | F |
| And went away and cannot really be said to have lived at all | G |
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| And cats die They lie on the floor and lash their tails | H |
| And their reticent fur is suddenly all in motion | I |
| With fleas that one never knew were there | J |
| Polished and brown knowing all there is to know | K |
| Trekking off into the living world | L |
| You fetch a shoe box but it's much too small because she won't curl up now | M |
| So you find a bigger box and bury her in the yard and weep | N |
| But you do not wake up a month from then two months | O |
| A year from then two years in the middle of the night | P |
| And weep with your knuckles in your mouth and say Oh God Oh God | Q |
| Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies that matters | R |
| mothers and fathers don't die | S |
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| And if you have said For heaven's sake must you always be kissing a person | I |
| Or I do wish to gracious you'd stop tapping on the window with your thimble | T |
| Tomorrow or even the day after tomorrow if you're busy having fun | I |
| Is plenty of time to say I'm sorry mother | E |
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| To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died | U |
| who neither listen nor speak | V |
| Who do not drink their tea though they always said | W |
| Tea was such a comfort | X |
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| Run down into the cellar and bring up the last jar of raspberries | Y |
| they are not tempted | Z |
| Flatter them ask them what was it they said exactly | A2 |
| That time to the bishop or to the overseer or to Mrs Mason | I |
| They are not taken in | B2 |
| Shout at them get red in the face rise | C |
| Drag them up out of their chairs by their stiff shoulders and shake | C2 |
| them and yell at them | D2 |
| They are not startled they are not even embarrassed they slide | U |
| back into their chairs | E2 |
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| Your tea is cold now | M |
| You drink it standing up | F2 |
| And leave the house | G2 |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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