For A Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDDDD EEDFDFGFHHIJJDDD DDKDDKLLMNNMKMDDD MOOKPKQPRQSRSTTKKUUS DDSDDD DDDDDSDDSSKD DVVSSDDD WKWKWKSSKPDDPDDD SXSXDDYYYDPDPNCNCPPS SZZDDDDDA2DDA2B2B2MM C2C2ZZPPDDD DDA2DDA2B2B2MMC2C2ZZ PZPDDDE H M | A |
Nov th Feb th | B |
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Still he lies | C |
Pale wan and strangely wise | C |
Under the white coverlet | D |
He lies here sleeping yet | D |
Though it is day | D |
Though through the window flares the gaudy day | D |
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With red red roses strewn | E |
Little red roses smelling sweet of June | E |
He sleeps the winter dawn away | D |
The pink and gilded valentines are there | F |
He fingered yesterday | D |
The toy beasts guard him unaware | F |
Jumbo the elephant and Watch the dog | G |
And Strawberry the big brown furry bear | F |
The three he kept with him | H |
Who always slept with him | H |
Sleep not but stare like shore lights in a fog | I |
All is the same | J |
Table and chairs the picture in its frame | J |
The books with covers gay | D |
And now the day | D |
There through the window flares the gaudy day | D |
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Would it were night since in my heart is night | D |
Softly caressing blinding deadening night | D |
That won him from me Would that we we two | K |
Wound close together soft in folds of white | D |
Were buried deep in darkness From the night | D |
Love called him years ago from the dim blue | K |
Of shadow souls that throng about the earth | L |
Waiting for birth | L |
And when the moons were run | M |
Through blackest night the windy night of pain | N |
We rose we twain | N |
Into the path of the sun | M |
And saw God pass to light the world anew | K |
Now all is done | M |
The torch is burned away | D |
Yet it is day | D |
Now through the window flares the gaudy day | D |
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Did you speak little one | M |
At your locked lips I listen evermore | O |
Say do you play upon the starry floor | O |
And pluck the anemone and asphodel | K |
In happy groves a happy child forever | P |
Will you not tell | K |
Or in some spirit world melodious clear | Q |
Where life at truce with death shall perish never | P |
There in high union with harmonious powers | R |
Will your fair soul to perfect stature rear | Q |
And wisdom of a man And will you be | S |
God's hero riding out the sun long hours | R |
To bear to captive stars their liberty | S |
Or in the heaven of heavens | T |
Ringed round with seraphim by threes and sevens | T |
Wrapt deep in holiness intolerable | K |
Will you the glory of God in raptures tell | K |
Of praise praise joy and praise | U |
Through the unending days | U |
My little one will you not speak to me | S |
To me who ever heard | D |
Your softest baby word | D |
Will you tell nothing nothing Can you be | S |
Forgetful now and shut your eyes away | D |
Now it is day | D |
Now through the window flares the gaudy day | D |
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Me ignorant and impotent and blind | D |
I look before and after and unwind | D |
Intricate webs of thought | D |
By saints and sages wrought | D |
Only to weave a vapor of the mind | D |
Here between you and me | S |
All weariness except that on my breast | D |
Your warm and rosy flesh could softly rest | D |
And now my dazed eyes see | S |
Tricked out in mockery | S |
A heap of ashes marbled with your smile | K |
Almost I hear the patter of little feet | D |
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Your dancing hours repeat | D |
Almost I hear | V |
Your twitter of laughter at my ear | V |
And suddenly feel soft arms around me | S |
As though love crowned me | S |
Dreams of the night softly they flit away | D |
For it is day | D |
Now through the window flares the gaudy day | D |
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Alone alone | W |
Smiling you dare set forth quick to the call | K |
Out of my arms into that far unknown | W |
Swiftly you run nor seem to fear at all | K |
Don't you know we are one yes bone of bone | W |
Flesh of my flesh soul of my very soul | K |
Whither thou goest I must go or be | S |
A coward thing ever at war with thee | S |
Laggard and lost while thou art at the goal | K |
Ah leave me not now at the sunrise hour | P |
Pause but to take my hand | D |
And give the high indomitable command | D |
And I will mount with thee the topmost tower | P |
Show me the way | D |
Now it is day | D |
Now through the window flares the gaudy day | D |
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Ah dost thou rise before me | S |
Braver than I to meet the intrepid morn | X |
Dost thou implore me | S |
To shut thy silent shadow house forlorn | X |
And turn me from its locked and leaden gate | D |
With heart elate | D |
Oh shall I don my jewelled robe and so | Y |
With flourish of flutes and banners all aglow | Y |
Forth to the triumph go | Y |
The hills are hung with purple mist | D |
Beyond thy sepulchre | P |
There death and life have newly kissed | D |
For thou art early astir | P |
There wedded now who once were twain | N |
From truth to truth they rise | C |
And thou shalt lead me in their train | N |
And teach me to be wise | C |
Not far not far | P |
I follow where thy footsteps are | P |
And take from thee | S |
The cup of immortality | S |
Here in my little place | Z |
My little house of time and space | Z |
Why should I stay | D |
Now it is day | D |
Now through the window flares the day the day | D |
In crimson and gold arrayed | D |
Royal and unafraid | D |
It comes as for the bridal of a queen | A2 |
And far before its feet | D |
The dawn on pinions fleet | D |
Spreads wide the path of life with joy serene | A2 |
Beautiful art thou beautiful and brave | B2 |
In vain they dig thy grave | B2 |
Thy soul in glory moves the foremost one | M |
To scale the sun | M |
And now and now | C2 |
I kiss thy tranquil brow | C2 |
And go apace | Z |
Out in the light to find thy dwelling place | Z |
Now we are bound no more | P |
Beyond the farthest shore | P |
And never stray | D |
For it is day | D |
Now through the darkness flares the day the day | D |
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In crimson and gold arrayed | D |
Royal and unafraid | D |
It comes as for the bridal of a queen | A2 |
And far before its feet | D |
The dawn on pinions fleet | D |
Spreads wide the path of life with joy serene | A2 |
Beautiful art thou beautiful and brave | B2 |
In vain they dig thy grave | B2 |
Thy soul in glory moves the foremost one | M |
Toscale the sun | M |
And now and now | C2 |
I kiss thy tranquil brow | C2 |
And go apace | Z |
Out in the light to find thy dwelling place | Z |
Now we are bound no more | P |
I follow thee beyond the rim of space | Z |
Beyond the farthest shore | P |
And never stray | D |
Fir it is day | D |
Now through the darkness flares the day the day | D |
Harriet Monroe
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