Upon The Disobedient Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFGHHIIJJEEEE KKLLKKMMNOKKIIPPGGQR AAChildren 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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