Ex Ore Infantium Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDAACDBBEEFFGGHH II JJKLBBIIMMNN FFJJJJOPQQCCR KK

Little Jesus wast Thou shyA
Once and just so small as IA
And what did it feel like to beB
Out of Heaven and just like meB
Didst Thou sometimes think of THEREC
And ask where all the angels wereD
I should think that I would cryA
For my house all made of skyA
I would look about the airC
And wonder where my angels wereD
And at waking 'twould distress meB
Not an angel there to dress meB
Hadst Thou ever any toysE
Like us little girls and boysE
And didst Thou play in Heaven with allF
The angels that were not too tallF
With stars for marbles Did the thingsG
Play Can you see me through their wingsG
And did Thy Mother let Thee spoilH
Thy robes with playing on OUR soilH
How nice to have them always newI
In Heaven because 'twas quite clean blueI
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Didst Thou kneel at night to prayJ
And didst Thou join Thy hands this wayJ
And did they tire sometimes being youngK
And make the prayer seem very longL
And dost Thou like it best that weB
Should join our hands to pray to TheeB
I used to think before I knewI
The prayer not said unless we doI
And did Thy Mother at the nightM
Kiss Thee and fold the clothes in rightM
And didst Thou feel quite good in bedN
Kissed and sweet and thy prayers saidN
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Thou canst not have forgotten allF
That it feels like to be smallF
And Thou know'st I cannot prayJ
To Thee in my father's wayJ
When Thou wast so little sayJ
Couldst Thou talk Thy Father's wayJ
So a little Child come downO
And hear a child's tongue like Thy ownP
Take me by the hand and walkQ
And listen to my baby talkQ
To Thy Father show my prayerC
He will look Thou art so fairC
And say 'O Father I Thy SonR
Bring the prayer of a little one '-
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And He will smile that children's tongueK
Has not changed since Thou wast youngK

Francis Thompson



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