Childhood. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBCBBDEDE| What trifles touch our feelings when we view | A |
| The simple scenes of Childhood's early day | B |
| Pausing on spots where gather'd blossoms grew | A |
| Or favour'd seats of many a childish play | B |
| Bush dyke or wood where painted pooties lay | B |
| Where oft we've crept and crept the shades among | C |
| Where ivy hung old roots bemoss'd with grey | B |
| Where nettles oft our infant fingers stung | C |
| And tears would weep the gentle wounds away | B |
| Ah gentle wounds indeed I well may say | B |
| To those sad Manhood's tortur'd passage found | D |
| Where naked Fate each day new pangs doth feel | E |
| Clearing away the brambles that surround | D |
| Inflicting tortures death can only heal | E |
John Clare
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