The Dying Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABA CDCDC DEDED FGFGF HIHIH ECECC| He could not die when trees were green | A |
| For he loved the time too well | B |
| His little hands when flowers were seen | A |
| Were held for the bluebell | B |
| As he was carried o'er the green | A |
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| His eye glanced at the white nosed bee | C |
| He knew those children of the spring | D |
| When he was well and on the lea | C |
| He held one in his hands to sing | D |
| Which filled his heart with glee | C |
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| Infants the children of the spring | D |
| How can an infant die | E |
| When butterflies are on the wing | D |
| Green grass and such a sky | E |
| How can they die at spring | D |
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| He held his hands for daisies white | F |
| And then for violets blue | G |
| And took them all to bed at night | F |
| That in the green fields grew | G |
| As childhood's sweet delight | F |
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| And then he shut his little eyes | H |
| And flowers would notice not | I |
| Birds' nests and eggs caused no surprise | H |
| He now no blossoms got | I |
| They met with plaintive sighs | H |
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| When winter came and blasts did sigh | E |
| And bare were plain and tree | C |
| As he for ease in bed did lie | E |
| His soul seemed with the free | C |
| He died so quietly | C |
John Clare
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