Childhood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEF GGHHIIJJKKLLMMNNOP QQRR SSTT BBRR SSUURRI 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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