For A Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDDDD EEDFDFGFHHIJJDDD DDKDDKLLMNNMKMDDD MOOKPKQPRQSRSTTKKUUS DDSDDD DDDDDSDDSSKD DVVSSDDD WKWKWKSSKPDDPDDD SXSXDDYYYDPDPNCNCPPS SZZDDDDDA2DDA2B2B2MM C2C2ZZPPDDD DDA2DDA2B2B2MMC2C2ZZ PZPDDD

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Still he liesC
Pale wan and strangely wiseC
Under the white coverletD
He lies here sleeping yetD
Though it is dayD
Though through the window flares the gaudy dayD
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With red red roses strewnE
Little red roses smelling sweet of JuneE
He sleeps the winter dawn awayD
The pink and gilded valentines are thereF
He fingered yesterdayD
The toy beasts guard him unawareF
Jumbo the elephant and Watch the dogG
And Strawberry the big brown furry bearF
The three he kept with himH
Who always slept with himH
Sleep not but stare like shore lights in a fogI
All is the sameJ
Table and chairs the picture in its frameJ
The books with covers gayD
And now the dayD
There through the window flares the gaudy dayD
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Would it were night since in my heart is nightD
Softly caressing blinding deadening nightD
That won him from me Would that we we twoK
Wound close together soft in folds of whiteD
Were buried deep in darkness From the nightD
Love called him years ago from the dim blueK
Of shadow souls that throng about the earthL
Waiting for birthL
And when the moons were runM
Through blackest night the windy night of painN
We rose we twainN
Into the path of the sunM
And saw God pass to light the world anewK
Now all is doneM
The torch is burned awayD
Yet it is dayD
Now through the window flares the gaudy dayD
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Did you speak little oneM
At your locked lips I listen evermoreO
Say do you play upon the starry floorO
And pluck the anemone and asphodelK
In happy groves a happy child foreverP
Will you not tellK
Or in some spirit world melodious clearQ
Where life at truce with death shall perish neverP
There in high union with harmonious powersR
Will your fair soul to perfect stature rearQ
And wisdom of a man And will you beS
God's hero riding out the sun long hoursR
To bear to captive stars their libertyS
Or in the heaven of heavensT
Ringed round with seraphim by threes and sevensT
Wrapt deep in holiness intolerableK
Will you the glory of God in raptures tellK
Of praise praise joy and praiseU
Through the unending daysU
My little one will you not speak to meS
To me who ever heardD
Your softest baby wordD
Will you tell nothing nothing Can you beS
Forgetful now and shut your eyes awayD
Now it is dayD
Now through the window flares the gaudy dayD
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Me ignorant and impotent and blindD
I look before and after and unwindD
Intricate webs of thoughtD
By saints and sages wroughtD
Only to weave a vapor of the mindD
Here between you and meS
All weariness except that on my breastD
Your warm and rosy flesh could softly restD
And now my dazed eyes seeS
Tricked out in mockeryS
A heap of ashes marbled with your smileK
Almost I hear the patter of little feetD
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Your dancing hours repeatD
Almost I hearV
Your twitter of laughter at my earV
And suddenly feel soft arms around meS
As though love crowned meS
Dreams of the night softly they flit awayD
For it is dayD
Now through the window flares the gaudy dayD
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Alone aloneW
Smiling you dare set forth quick to the callK
Out of my arms into that far unknownW
Swiftly you run nor seem to fear at allK
Don't you know we are one yes bone of boneW
Flesh of my flesh soul of my very soulK
Whither thou goest I must go or beS
A coward thing ever at war with theeS
Laggard and lost while thou art at the goalK
Ah leave me not now at the sunrise hourP
Pause but to take my handD
And give the high indomitable commandD
And I will mount with thee the topmost towerP
Show me the wayD
Now it is dayD
Now through the window flares the gaudy dayD
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Ah dost thou rise before meS
Braver than I to meet the intrepid mornX
Dost thou implore meS
To shut thy silent shadow house forlornX
And turn me from its locked and leaden gateD
With heart elateD
Oh shall I don my jewelled robe and soY
With flourish of flutes and banners all aglowY
Forth to the triumph goY
The hills are hung with purple mistD
Beyond thy sepulchreP
There death and life have newly kissedD
For thou art early astirP
There wedded now who once were twainN
From truth to truth they riseC
And thou shalt lead me in their trainN
And teach me to be wiseC
Not far not farP
I follow where thy footsteps areP
And take from theeS
The cup of immortalityS
Here in my little placeZ
My little house of time and spaceZ
Why should I stayD
Now it is dayD
Now through the window flares the day the dayD
In crimson and gold arrayedD
Royal and unafraidD
It comes as for the bridal of a queenA2
And far before its feetD
The dawn on pinions fleetD
Spreads wide the path of life with joy sereneA2
Beautiful art thou beautiful and braveB2
In vain they dig thy graveB2
Thy soul in glory moves the foremost oneM
To scale the sunM
And now and nowC2
I kiss thy tranquil browC2
And go apaceZ
Out in the light to find thy dwelling placeZ
Now we are bound no moreP
Beyond the farthest shoreP
And never strayD
For it is dayD
Now through the darkness flares the day the dayD
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In crimson and gold arrayedD
Royal and unafraidD
It comes as for the bridal of a queenA2
And far before its feetD
The dawn on pinions fleetD
Spreads wide the path of life with joy sereneA2
Beautiful art thou beautiful and braveB2
In vain they dig thy graveB2
Thy soul in glory moves the foremost oneM
Toscale the sunM
And now and nowC2
I kiss thy tranquil browC2
And go apaceZ
Out in the light to find thy dwelling placeZ
Now we are bound no moreP
I follow thee beyond the rim of spaceZ
Beyond the farthest shoreP
And never strayD
Fir it is dayD
Now through the darkness flares the day the dayD

Harriet Monroe



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