The Child And The Flower-elf Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB CDED CFGF CHCH GIJK DLEL MNO MPJP OOMO QRSR IQTQ| I was walking dearest mother | A |
| This morning by the brook | B |
| And tired at last I rested me | C |
| Within a shady nook | B |
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| There all was still and lonely | C |
| And suddenly I heard | D |
| A little voice a sweeter one | E |
| Than note of any bird | D |
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| I looked above around me | C |
| I saw not whence it came | F |
| And yet that tone of music | G |
| Was calling me by name | F |
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| The violet beside me | C |
| Bloomed with its purple cup | H |
| And a tiny face so lovely | C |
| Amidst its leaves peeped up | H |
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| Again the silver music | G |
| The voice I loved to hear | I |
| Upon its sweet breath floated | J |
| And bade me not to fear | K |
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| 'I am the elf ' it whispered | D |
| 'Who in the violet dwells | L |
| And every blossom hides one | E |
| Within its fragrant cells | L |
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| 'If you will list our teaching | M |
| And catch our faintest tone | N |
| Your heart will be as spotless | O |
| As loving as our own ' | - |
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| And then as I was gazing | M |
| It vanished from my sight | P |
| Once more the violet nodded | J |
| And sought the sunshine bright | P |
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| My darling child the elfins | O |
| That live within the flowers | O |
| Sweet sounds are ever breathing | M |
| To glad this world of ours | O |
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| Well may we weep and sorrow | Q |
| If they are silent all | R |
| Then are our souls too sinful | S |
| To heed their spirit call | R |
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| The pure in heart alone can hear | I |
| Those precious words and low | Q |
| And by their lessons purer yet | T |
| Throughout their lives shall grow | Q |
H. P. Nichols
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