The Children's Hour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE EGHG IJBJ KLEL EGDG MNNN ELOL PENE BENE| Between the dark and the daylight | A |
| When the night is beginning to lower | B |
| Comes a pause in the day's occupations | C |
| That is known as the Children's Hour | B |
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| I hear in the chamber above me | D |
| The patter of little feet | E |
| The sound of a door that is opened | F |
| And voices soft and sweet | E |
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| From my study I see in the lamplight | E |
| Descending the broad hall stair | G |
| Grave Alice and laughing Allegra | H |
| And Edith with golden hair | G |
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| They whisper and then a silence | I |
| Yet I know by their merry eyes | J |
| They are plotting and planning together | B |
| To take me by surprise | J |
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| A sudden rush from the stairway | K |
| A sudden raid from the hall | L |
| By three doors left unguarded | E |
| They enter my castle wall | L |
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| They climb up into my turret | E |
| O'er the arms and back of my chair | G |
| If I try to escape they surround me | D |
| They seem to be everywhere | G |
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| They almost devour me with kisses | M |
| Their arms about me entwine | N |
| Till I think of the Biship of Bingen | N |
| In his Mouse Tower on the Rhine | N |
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| Do you think O blue eyed banditti | E |
| Because you have scaled the wall | L |
| Such an old mustache as I am | O |
| Is not a match for you all | L |
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| I have you fast in my fortress | P |
| And will not let you depart | E |
| But put you down into the dungeon | N |
| In the round tower of my heart | E |
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| And there will I keep you forever | B |
| Yes forever and a day | E |
| Till the walls shall crumble to ruin | N |
| And moulder in dust away | E |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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