Child Of Dawn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDABCD EFGFEG HIIHDDJKDJ LMLMCNFCFN ABCDABCD| O gentle vision in the dawn | A |
| My spirit over faint cool water glides | B |
| Child of the day | C |
| To thee | D |
| And thou art drawn | A |
| By kindred impulse over silver tides | B |
| The dreamy way | C |
| To me | D |
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| I need thy hands O gentle wonder child | E |
| For they are moulded unto all repose | F |
| Thy lips are frail | G |
| And thou art cooler than an April rose | F |
| White are thy words and mild | E |
| Child of the morning hail | G |
| - | |
| Breathe thus upon mine eyelids that we twain | H |
| May build the day together out of dreams | I |
| Life with thy breath upon my eyelids seems | I |
| Exquisite to the utmost bounds of pain | H |
| I cannot live except as I may be | D |
| Compelled for love of thee | D |
| O let us drift | J |
| Frail as the floating silver of a star | K |
| Or like the summer humming of a bee | D |
| Or stream reflected sunlight through a rift | J |
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| I will not hope because I know alas | L |
| Morning will glide and noon and then the night | M |
| Will take thee from me Everything must pass | L |
| Swiftly but nought so swift as dawn delight | M |
| If I could hold thee till the day | C |
| Is broad on sea and hill | N |
| Child of repose | F |
| What god can say | C |
| What god or mortal knows | F |
| What dream thou mightest not in me fulfil | N |
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| O gentle vision in the dawn | A |
| My spirit over faint cool water glides | B |
| Child of the day | C |
| To thee | D |
| And thou art drawn | A |
| By kindred impulse over silver tides | B |
| The dreamy way | C |
| To me | D |
Harold Monro
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