Jack-in-the-box Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDEBCFFGG HHIIJJKKBBB IKIL| Grandfather musing | A |
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| In childish days O memory | B |
| You bring such curious things to me | B |
| Laughs to the lip tears to the eye | C |
| In looking on the gifts that lie | C |
| Like broken playthings scattered o'er | D |
| Imagination's nursery floor | E |
| Did these old hands once click the key | B |
| That let 'Jack's' box lid upward fly | C |
| And that blear eyed fur whiskered elf | F |
| Leap as though frightened at himself | F |
| And quiveringly lean and stare | G |
| At me his jailer laughing there | G |
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| A child then Now I only know | H |
| They call me very old and so | H |
| They will not let me have my way | I |
| But uselessly I sit all day | I |
| Here by the chimney jamb and poke | J |
| The lazy fire and smoke and smoke | J |
| And watch the wreaths swoop up the flue | K |
| And chuckle ay I often do | K |
| Seeing again all vividly | B |
| Jack in the box leap as in glee | B |
| To see how much he looks like me | B |
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| They talk I can't hear what they say | I |
| But I am glad clean through and through | K |
| Sometimes in fancying that they | I |
| Are saying 'Sweet that fancy strays | L |
| In age back to our childish days ' | - |
James Whitcomb Riley
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