When Childhood Died Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK IHMH JMNM HLFL MHIH HOHO| I can recall the day | A |
| When childhood died | B |
| I had grown thin and tall | C |
| And eager eyed | B |
| - | |
| Such a false happiness | D |
| Had seized me then | E |
| A child I saw myself | F |
| Man among men | E |
| - | |
| Now I see that I was | G |
| Ignorant surprised | H |
| As one for the surgeon's knife | I |
| An sthetized | H |
| - | |
| So that I did not know | J |
| What loomed before | K |
| Nor how a child I became | L |
| A child no more | K |
| - | |
| The world's sharpened knife | I |
| Cut round my heart | H |
| Then something was taken | M |
| And flung apart | H |
| - | |
| I did not could not know | J |
| What had been done | M |
| Under some evil drag | N |
| I lived as one | M |
| - | |
| At home in the seeming world | H |
| Then slowly came | L |
| Through years and years to myself | F |
| And was no more the same | L |
| - | |
| I know now an ill thing was done | M |
| To a young child | H |
| By the world's wary knife | I |
| Maimed and defiled | H |
| - | |
| I can recall the day | H |
| Almost without anger or pain | O |
| When childhood did not die | H |
| But was slain | O |
John Frederick Freeman
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