A Child-world Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACC DEDEF GHGHH IJIJJ| The Child World long and long since lost to view | A |
| A Fairy Paradise | B |
| How always fair it was and fresh and new | A |
| How every affluent hour heaped heart and eyes | C |
| With treasures of surprise | C |
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| Enchantments tangible The under brink | D |
| Of dawns that launched the sight | E |
| Up seas of gold The dewdrop on the pink | D |
| With all the green earth in it and blue height | E |
| Of heavens infinite | F |
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| The liquid dripping songs of orchard birds | G |
| The wee bass of the bees | H |
| With lucent deeps of silence afterwards | G |
| The gay clandestine whisperings of the breeze | H |
| And glad leaves of the trees | H |
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| O Child World After this world just as when | I |
| I found you first sufficed | J |
| My soulmost need if I found you again | I |
| With all my childish dream so realised | J |
| I should not be surprised | J |
James Whitcomb Riley
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