I Would I Were A Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EDDE FDDF GBBG HBBH IJJK LDDL MDDM NHHN OPPO LBBL QDDQ| I would I were a child | A |
| That I might look and laugh and say My Father | B |
| And follow thee with running feet or rather | B |
| Be led through dark and wild | A |
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| How I would hold thy hand | C |
| My glad eyes often to thy glory lifting | D |
| Should darkness 'twixt thy face and mine come drifting | D |
| My heart would but expand | C |
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| If an ill thing came near | E |
| I would but creep within thy mantle's folding | D |
| Shut my eyes close thy hand yet faster holding | D |
| And soon forget my fear | E |
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| O soul O soul rejoice | F |
| Thou art God's child indeed for all thy sinning | D |
| A poor weak child yet his and worth the winning | D |
| With saviour eyes and voice | F |
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| Who spake the words Didst Thou | G |
| They are too good even for such a giver | B |
| Such water drinking once I should feel ever | B |
| As I had drunk but now | G |
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| Yet sure the Word said so | H |
| Teaching our lips to cry with his Our Father | B |
| Telling the tale of him who once did gather | B |
| His goods to him and go | H |
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| Ah thou dost lead me God | I |
| But it is dark and starless the way dreary | J |
| Almost I sleep I am so very weary | J |
| Upon this rough hill road | K |
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| Almost Nay I do sleep | L |
| There is no darkness save in this my dreaming | D |
| Thy fatherhood above around is beaming | D |
| Thy hand my hand doth keep | L |
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| With sighs my soul doth teem | M |
| I have no knowledge but that I am sleeping | D |
| Haunted with lies my life will fail in weeping | D |
| Wake me from this my dream | M |
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| How long shall heavy night | N |
| Deny the day How long shall this dull sorrow | H |
| Say in my heart that never any morrow | H |
| Will bring the friendly light | N |
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| Lord art thou in the room | O |
| Come near my bed oh draw aside the curtain | P |
| A child's heart would say Father were it certain | P |
| That it would not presume | O |
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| But if this dreary sleep | L |
| May not be broken help thy helpless sleeper | B |
| To rest in thee so shall his sleep grow deeper | B |
| For evil dreams too deep | L |
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| Father I dare at length | Q |
| My childhood sure will hold me free from blaming | D |
| Sinful yet hoping I to thee come claiming | D |
| Thy tenderness my strength | Q |
George Macdonald
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