The Poet's Love For The Children Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HGIG JGGG KGCG JLGL| Kindly and warm and tender | A |
| He nestled each childish palm | B |
| So close in his own that his touch was a prayer | C |
| And his speech a blessed psalm | D |
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| He has turned from the marvelous pages | E |
| Of many an alien tome | F |
| Haply come down from Olivet | G |
| Or out from the gates of Rome | F |
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| Set sail o'er the seas between him | H |
| And each little beckoning hand | G |
| That fluttered about in the meadows | I |
| And groves of his native land | G |
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| Fluttered and flashed on his vision | J |
| As in the glimmering light | G |
| Of the orchard lands of childhood | G |
| The blossoms of pink and white | G |
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| And there have been sobs in his bosom | K |
| As out on the shores he stept | G |
| And many a little welcomer | C |
| Has wondered why he wept | G |
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| That was because O children | J |
| Ye might not always be | L |
| The same that the Savior's arms were wound | G |
| About in Galilee | L |
James Whitcomb Riley
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