The Child On The Cliffs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEE FGHIJJ KLMLN OPQRKK| Mother the root of this little yellow flower | A |
| Among the stones has the taste of quinine | B |
| Things are strange to day on the cliff The sun shines so bright | C |
| And the grasshopper works at his sewing machine | D |
| So hard Here's one on my hand mother look | E |
| I lie so still There's one on your book | E |
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| But I have something to tell more strange So leave | F |
| Your book to the grasshopper mother dear | G |
| Like a green knight in a dazzling market place | H |
| And listen now Can you hear what I hear | I |
| Far out Now and then the foam there curls | J |
| And stretches a white arm out like a girl's | J |
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| Fishes and gulls ring no bells There cannot be | K |
| A chapel or church between here and Devon | L |
| With fishes or gulls ringing its bell hark | M |
| Somewhere under the sea or up in heaven | L |
| 'It's the bell my son out in the bay | N |
| On the buoy It does sound sweet to day ' | - |
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| Sweeter I never heard mother no not in all Wales | O |
| I should like to be lying under that foam | P |
| Dead but able to hear the sound of the bell | Q |
| And certain that you would often come | R |
| And rest listening happily | K |
| I should be happy if that could be | K |
Edward Thomas
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