On The Gift Of A Book To A Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHIChild do not throw this book about | A |
Refrain from the unholy pleasure | B |
Of cutting all the pictures out | A |
Preserve it as your chiefest treasure | B |
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Child have you never heard it said | C |
That you are heir to all the ages | D |
Why then your hands were never made | E |
To tear these beautiful thick pages | D |
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Your little hands were made to take | F |
The better things and leave the worse ones | G |
They also may be used to shake | F |
The Massive Paws of Elder Persons | G |
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And when your prayers complete the day | H |
Darling your little tiny hands | I |
Were also made I think to pray | H |
For men that lose their fairylands | I |
Hilaire Belloc
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