Childhood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEF GGHHIIJJKKLLMMNNOP QQRR SSTT BBRR SSUURR| I cannot reach it and my striving eye | A |
| Dazzles at it as at eternity | B |
| Were now that chronicle alive | C |
| Those white designs which children drive | C |
| And the thoughts of each harmless hour | D |
| With their content too in my power | D |
| Quickly would I make my path even | E |
| And by mere playing go to heaven | F |
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| Why should men love | G |
| A wolf more than a lamb or dove | G |
| Or choose hell fire and brimstone streams | H |
| Before bright stars and God's own beams | H |
| Who kisseth thorns will hurt his face | I |
| But flowers do both refresh and grace | I |
| And sweetly living fie on men | J |
| Are when dead medicinal then | J |
| If seeing much should make staid eyes | K |
| And long experience should make wise | K |
| Since all that age doth teach is ill | L |
| Why should I not love childhood still | L |
| Why if I see a rock or shelf | M |
| Shall I from thence cast down myself | M |
| Or by complying with the world | N |
| From the same precipice be hurled | N |
| Those observations are but foul | O |
| Which make me wise to lose my soul | P |
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| And yet the practice worldlings call | Q |
| Business and weighty action all | Q |
| Checking the poor child for his play | R |
| But gravely cast themselves away | R |
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| Dear harmless age the short swift span | S |
| Where weeping Virtue parts with man | S |
| Where love without lust dwells and bends | T |
| What way we please without self ends | T |
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| An age of mysteries which he | B |
| Must live twice that would God's face see | B |
| Which angels guard and with it play | R |
| Angels which foul men drive away | R |
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| How do I study now and scan | S |
| Thee more than e'er I studied man | S |
| And only see through a long night | U |
| Thy edges and thy bordering light | U |
| Oh for thy center and midday | R |
| For sure that is the narrow way | R |
Henry Vaughan
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