To A Young Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDDEEFFGG| Margaret 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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