Lessons For A Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGGHHAAHHAA AEEAAIIDD A CACACJJCCDDKKLLMMMMN NCCOOPQCCRS MMTTMMM LEUEUUL ETTE A TTTT BTBT VEVE WTWTI | A |
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There breathes not a breath of the summer air | B |
But the spirit of love is moving there | B |
Not a trembling leaf on the shadowy tree | C |
Flutters with hundreds in harmony | C |
But that spirit can part its tone from the rest | D |
And read the life in its beetle's breast | D |
When the sunshiny butterflies come and go | E |
Like flowers paying visits to and fro | E |
Not a single wave of their fanning wings | F |
Is unfelt by the spirit that feeleth all things | F |
The long mantled moths that sleep at noon | G |
And rove in the light of the gentler moon | G |
And the myriad gnats that dance like a wall | H |
Or a moving column that will not fall | H |
And the dragon flies that go burning by | A |
Shot like a glance from a seeking eye | A |
There is one being that loves them all | H |
Not a fly in a spider's web can fall | H |
But he cares for the spider and cares for the fly | A |
He cares for you whether you laugh or cry | A |
Cares whether your mother smile or sigh | A |
How he cares for so many I do not know | E |
But it would be too strange if he did not so | E |
Dreadful and dreary for even a fly | A |
So I cannot wait for the how and why | A |
But believe that all things are gathered and nursed | I |
In the love of him whose love went first | I |
And made this world like a huge great nest | D |
For a hen to sit on with feathery breast | D |
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II | A |
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The bird on the leafy tree | C |
The bird in the cloudy sky | A |
The hart in the forest free | C |
The stag on the mountain high | A |
The fish inside the sea | C |
The albatross asleep | J |
On the outside of the deep | J |
The bee through the summer sunny | C |
Hunting for wells of honey | C |
What is the thought in the breast | D |
Of the little bird in its nest | D |
What is the thought in the songs | K |
The lark in the sky prolongs | K |
What mean the dolphin's rays | L |
Winding his watery ways | L |
What is the thought of the stag | M |
Stately on yonder crag | M |
What does the albatross think | M |
Dreaming upon the brink | M |
Of the mountain billow and then | N |
Dreaming down in its glen | N |
What is the thought of the bee | C |
Fleeting so silently | C |
Or flitting with busy hum | O |
But a careless go and come | O |
From flower chalice to chalice | P |
Like a prince from palace to palace | Q |
What makes them alive so very | C |
Some of them surely merry | C |
And others so stately calm | R |
They might be singing a psalm | S |
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I cannot tell what they think | M |
Only know they eat and drink | M |
And on all that lies about | T |
With a quiet heart look out | T |
Each after its kind stately or coy | M |
Solemn like man gamesome like boy | M |
Glad with its own mysterious joy | M |
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And God who knows their thoughts and ways | L |
Though his the creatures do not know | E |
From his full heart fills each of theirs | U |
Into them all his breath doth go | E |
Good and better with them he shares | U |
Content with their bliss while they have no prayers | U |
He takes their joy for praise | L |
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If thou wouldst be like him little one go | E |
And be kind with a kindness undefiled | T |
Who gives for the pleasure of thanks my child | T |
God's gladness cannot know | E |
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III | A |
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Root met root in the spongy ground | T |
Searching each for food | T |
Each turned aside and away it wound | T |
And each got something good | T |
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Sound met sound in the wavy air | B |
That made a little to do | T |
They jostled not long but were quick and fair | B |
Each found its path and flew | T |
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Drop dashed on drop as the rain shower fell | V |
They joined and sank below | E |
In gathered thousands they rose a well | V |
With a singing overflow | E |
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Wind met wind in a garden green | W |
They began to push and fret | T |
A tearing whirlwind arose between | W |
There love lies bleeding yet | T |
George Macdonald
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