The Child's Question Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ADED FGHG IJKJ LMNM OPCP| What are the flowers for mamma | A |
| That spring up fresh and bright | B |
| And grow on every hill and plain | C |
| Where'er I turn my sight | B |
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| How do the flowers grow mamma | A |
| I've pulled the leaves away | D |
| And tried to see them blossom out | E |
| On many a summer's day | D |
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| The flowers were made my little child | F |
| That when our footsteps trod | G |
| Upon the green and pleasant fields | H |
| We then might think of God | G |
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| We may not see how they do grow | I |
| And bloom in beauty fair | J |
| We cannot tell how they can spread | K |
| Their small leaves to the air | J |
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| But yet we know that God's kind hand | L |
| Creates these little flowers | M |
| And makes the warm sun shine on them | N |
| And waters them with showers | M |
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| And so we love to think that He | O |
| Who paints their sweet leaves thus | P |
| Who sends the sunshine and the rain | C |
| Has thought and care for us | P |
H. P. Nichols
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