The Translator And The Children Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDD EFGGHHIII| While I translated Baudelaire | A |
| Children were playing out in the air | A |
| Turning to watch I saw the light | B |
| That made their clothes and faces bright | B |
| I heard the tune they meant to sing | C |
| As they kept dancing in a ring | C |
| But I could not forget my book | D |
| And thought of men whose faces shook | D |
| When babies passed them with a look | D |
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| They are as terrible as death | E |
| Those children in the road beneath | F |
| Their witless chatter is more dread | G |
| Than voices in a madman's head | G |
| Their dance more awful and inspired | H |
| Because their feet are never tired | H |
| Than silent revel with soft sound | I |
| Of pipes on consecrated ground | I |
| When all the ghosts go round and round | I |
James Elroy Flecker
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