Upon The Disobedient Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFGHHIIJJEEEE KKLLKKMMNOKKIIPPGGQR AA| Children become while little our delights | A |
| When they grow bigger they begin to fright's | A |
| Their sinful nature prompts them to rebel | B |
| And to delight in paths that lead to hell | C |
| Their parents' love and care they overlook | D |
| As if relation had them quite forsook | D |
| They take the counsels of the wanton's rather | E |
| Than the most grave instructions of a father | E |
| They reckon parents ought to do for them | F |
| Though they the fifth commandment do contemn | G |
| They snap and snarl if parents them control | H |
| Though but in things most hurtful to the soul | H |
| They reckon they are masters and that we | I |
| Who parents are should to them subject be | I |
| If parents fain would have a hand in choosing | J |
| The children have a heart will in refusing | J |
| They'll by wrong doings under parents gather | E |
| And say it is no sin to rob a father | E |
| They'll jostle parents out of place and power | E |
| They'll make themselves the head and them devour | E |
| How many children by becoming head | K |
| Have brought their parents to a piece of bread | K |
| Thus they who at the first were parents joy | L |
| Turn that to bitterness themselves destroy | L |
| But wretched child how canst thou thus requite | K |
| Thy aged parents for that great delight | K |
| They took in thee when thou as helpless lay | M |
| In their indulgent bosoms day by day | M |
| Thy mother long before she brought thee forth | N |
| Took care thou shouldst want neither food nor cloth | O |
| Thy father glad was at his very heart | K |
| Had he to thee a portion to impart | K |
| Comfort they promised themselves in thee | I |
| But thou it seems to them a grief wilt be | I |
| How oft how willingly brake they their sleep | P |
| If thou their bantling didst but winch or weep | P |
| Their love to thee was such they could have giv'n | G |
| That thou mightst live almost their part of heav'n | G |
| But now behold how they rewarded are | Q |
| For their indulgent love and tender care | R |
| All is forgot this love he doth despise | A |
| They brought this bird up to pick out their eyes | A |
John Bunyan
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Upon The Disobedient Child is a poem by John Bunyan. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.