Children Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DADA EFGF HIHI JKLM AFNF AOPQ LLLL LRLR| Come to me O ye children | A |
| For I hear you at your play | B |
| And the questions that perplexed me | C |
| Have vanished quite away | B |
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| Ye open the eastern windows | D |
| That look towards the sun | A |
| Where thoughts are singing swallows | D |
| And the brooks of morning run | A |
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| In your hearts are the birds and the sunshine | E |
| In your thoughts the brooklet's flow | F |
| But in mine is the wind of Autumn | G |
| And the first fall of the snow | F |
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| Ah what would the world be to us | H |
| If the children were no more | I |
| We should dread the desert behind us | H |
| Worse than the dark before | I |
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| What the leaves are to the forest | J |
| With light and air for food | K |
| Ere their sweet and tender juices | L |
| Have been hardened into wood | M |
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| That to the world are children | A |
| Through them it feels the glow | F |
| Of a brighter and sunnier climate | N |
| Than reaches the trunks below | F |
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| Come to me O ye children | A |
| And whisper in my ear | O |
| What the birds and the winds are singing | P |
| In your sunny atmosphere | Q |
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| For what are all our contrivings | L |
| And the wisdom of our books | L |
| When compared with your caresses | L |
| And the gladness of your looks | L |
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| Ye are better than all the ballads | L |
| That ever were sung or said | R |
| For ye are living poems | L |
| And all the rest are dead | R |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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