The Child Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGF HIJI A KLML BNKN OPHP A KQNQ RSKS KTUV WXRX YKGK| I | A |
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| Dying of hunger and sorrow | B |
| I die for my youth I fear | C |
| Murmured the midnight haunting | D |
| Voice of the stricken Year | C |
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| There like a child it perished | E |
| In the stormy thoroughfare | F |
| The snow with cruel whiteness | G |
| Had aged its flowing hair | F |
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| Ah little Year so fruitful | H |
| Ah child that brought us bliss | I |
| Must we so early lose you | J |
| Our dear hopes end in this | I |
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| II | A |
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| Too young am I too tender | K |
| To bear earth's avalanche | L |
| Of wrong that grinds down life hope | M |
| And makes my heart's blood blanch | L |
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| Tell him who soon shall follow | B |
| Where my tired feet have bled | N |
| He must be older shrewder | K |
| Hard cold and selfish bred | N |
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| Or else like me be trampled | O |
| Under the harsh world's heel | P |
| 'Tis weakness to be youthful | H |
| 'Tis death to love and feel | P |
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| III | A |
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| Then saw I how the New Year | K |
| Came like a scheming man | Q |
| With icy eyes his forehead | N |
| Wrinkled by care and plan | Q |
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| For trade and rule and profit | R |
| To him the fading child | S |
| Looked up and cried Oh brother | K |
| But died even while it smiled | S |
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| Down bent the harsh new comer | K |
| To lift with loving arm | T |
| The wanderer mute and fallen | U |
| And lo his eyes were warm | V |
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| All changed he grew the wrinkles | W |
| Vanished he too looked young | X |
| As if that lost child's spirit | R |
| Into his breast had sprung | X |
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| So are those lives not wasted | Y |
| Too frail to bear the fray | K |
| So Years may die yet leave us | G |
| Young hearts in a world grown gray | K |
George Parsons Lathrop
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