Childhood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEF GGHHIIJJKKLLMMNNOP QQRR SSTT BBRR SSUURR

I cannot reach it and my striving eyeA
Dazzles at it as at eternityB
Were now that chronicle aliveC
Those white designs which children driveC
And the thoughts of each harmless hourD
With their content too in my powerD
Quickly would I make my path evenE
And by mere playing go to heavenF
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Why should men loveG
A wolf more than a lamb or doveG
Or choose hell fire and brimstone streamsH
Before bright stars and God's own beamsH
Who kisseth thorns will hurt his faceI
But flowers do both refresh and graceI
And sweetly living fie on menJ
Are when dead medicinal thenJ
If seeing much should make staid eyesK
And long experience should make wiseK
Since all that age doth teach is illL
Why should I not love childhood stillL
Why if I see a rock or shelfM
Shall I from thence cast down myselfM
Or by complying with the worldN
From the same precipice be hurledN
Those observations are but foulO
Which make me wise to lose my soulP
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And yet the practice worldlings callQ
Business and weighty action allQ
Checking the poor child for his playR
But gravely cast themselves awayR
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Dear harmless age the short swift spanS
Where weeping Virtue parts with manS
Where love without lust dwells and bendsT
What way we please without self endsT
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An age of mysteries which heB
Must live twice that would God's face seeB
Which angels guard and with it playR
Angels which foul men drive awayR
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How do I study now and scanS
Thee more than e'er I studied manS
And only see through a long nightU
Thy edges and thy bordering lightU
Oh for thy center and middayR
For sure that is the narrow wayR

Henry Vaughan



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