Spring And Fall: To A Young Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDDEEFFGGMargaret are you grieving | A |
Over Goldengrove unleaving | A |
Leaves like the things of man you | B |
With your fresh thoughts care for can you | B |
Ah as the heart grows older | C |
It will come to such sights colder | C |
By and by nor spare a sigh | D |
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie | D |
And yet you will weep and know why | D |
Now no matter child the name | E |
Sorrow's springs are the same | E |
Nor mouth had no nor mind expressed | F |
What heart heard of ghost guessed | F |
It is the blight man was born for | G |
It is Margaret you mourn for | G |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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