To An Infant Daughter. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABAC DDDEDE FFFGFG HHHHHH IIIJIJ| Sweet gem of infant fairy flowers | A |
| Thy smiles on life' unclosing hours | A |
| Like sunbeams lost in summer showers | A |
| They wake my fears | B |
| When reason knows its sweets and sours | A |
| They'll change to tears | C |
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| God help thee little senseless thing | D |
| Thou daisy like of early spring | D |
| Of ambush'd winter's hornet sting | D |
| Hast yet to tell | E |
| Thou know'st not what to morrows bring | D |
| I wish thee well | E |
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| But thou art come and soon or late | F |
| 'Tis thine to meet the frowns of fate | F |
| The harpy grin of envy's hate | F |
| And mermaid smiles | G |
| Of worldly folly's luring bait | F |
| That youth beguiles | G |
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| And much I wish whate'er may be | H |
| The lot my child that falls to thee | H |
| Nature may never let thee see | H |
| Her glass betimes | H |
| But keep thee from my failings free | H |
| Nor itch at rhymes | H |
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| Lord knows my heart it loves thee much | I |
| And may my feelings aches and such | I |
| The pains I meet in folly's clutch | I |
| Be never thine | J |
| Child it's a tender string to touch | I |
| That sounds thou'rt mine | J |
John Clare
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