Ex Ore Infantium Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDAACDBBEEFFGGHH II JJKLBBIIMMNN FFJJJJOPQQCCR KKLittle Jesus wast Thou shy | A |
Once and just so small as I | A |
And what did it feel like to be | B |
Out of Heaven and just like me | B |
Didst Thou sometimes think of THERE | C |
And ask where all the angels were | D |
I should think that I would cry | A |
For my house all made of sky | A |
I would look about the air | C |
And wonder where my angels were | D |
And at waking 'twould distress me | B |
Not an angel there to dress me | B |
Hadst Thou ever any toys | E |
Like us little girls and boys | E |
And didst Thou play in Heaven with all | F |
The angels that were not too tall | F |
With stars for marbles Did the things | G |
Play Can you see me through their wings | G |
And did Thy Mother let Thee spoil | H |
Thy robes with playing on OUR soil | H |
How nice to have them always new | I |
In Heaven because 'twas quite clean blue | I |
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Didst Thou kneel at night to pray | J |
And didst Thou join Thy hands this way | J |
And did they tire sometimes being young | K |
And make the prayer seem very long | L |
And dost Thou like it best that we | B |
Should join our hands to pray to Thee | B |
I used to think before I knew | I |
The prayer not said unless we do | I |
And did Thy Mother at the night | M |
Kiss Thee and fold the clothes in right | M |
And didst Thou feel quite good in bed | N |
Kissed and sweet and thy prayers said | N |
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Thou canst not have forgotten all | F |
That it feels like to be small | F |
And Thou know'st I cannot pray | J |
To Thee in my father's way | J |
When Thou wast so little say | J |
Couldst Thou talk Thy Father's way | J |
So a little Child come down | O |
And hear a child's tongue like Thy own | P |
Take me by the hand and walk | Q |
And listen to my baby talk | Q |
To Thy Father show my prayer | C |
He will look Thou art so fair | C |
And say 'O Father I Thy Son | R |
Bring the prayer of a little one ' | - |
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And He will smile that children's tongue | K |
Has not changed since Thou wast young | K |
Francis Thompson
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