Child-songs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DAEA FGHG IJKJ LMNM OPQP RSTS UTVT WXTX TATA AHUH TYTY ZTA2T B2C2TC2| Still linger in our noon of time | A |
| And on our Saxon tongue | B |
| The echoes of the home born hymns | C |
| The Aryan mothers sung | B |
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| And childhood had its litanies | D |
| In every age and clime | A |
| The earliest cradles of the race | E |
| Were rocked to poet's rhyme | A |
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| Nor sky nor wave nor tree nor flower | F |
| Nor green earth's virgin sod | G |
| So moved the singer's heart of old | H |
| As these small ones of God | G |
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| The mystery of unfolding life | I |
| Was more than dawning morn | J |
| Than opening flower or crescent moon | K |
| The human soul new born | J |
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| And still to childhood's sweet appeal | L |
| The heart of genius turns | M |
| And more than all the sages teach | N |
| From lisping voices learns | M |
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| The voices loved of him who sang | O |
| Where Tweed and Teviot glide | P |
| That sound to day on all the winds | Q |
| That blow from Rydal side | P |
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| Heard in the Teuton's household songs | R |
| And folk lore of the Finn | S |
| Where'er to holy Christmas hearths | T |
| The Christ child enters in | S |
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| Before life's sweetest mystery still | U |
| The heart in reverence kneels | T |
| The wonder of the primal birth | V |
| The latest mother feels | T |
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| We need love's tender lessons taught | W |
| As only weakness can | X |
| God hath His small interpreters | T |
| The child must teach the man | X |
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| We wander wide through evil years | T |
| Our eyes of faith grow dim | A |
| But he is freshest from His hands | T |
| And nearest unto Him | A |
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| And haply pleading long with Him | A |
| For sin sick hearts and cold | H |
| The angels of our childhood still | U |
| The Father's face behold | H |
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| Of such the kingdom Teach Thou us | T |
| O Master most divine | Y |
| To feel the deep significance | T |
| Of these wise words of Thine | Y |
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| The haughty eye shall seek in vain | Z |
| What innocence beholds | T |
| No cunning finds the key of heaven | A2 |
| No strength its gate unfolds | T |
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| Alone to guilelessness and love | B2 |
| That gate shall open fall | C2 |
| The mind of pride is nothingness | T |
| The childlike heart is all | C2 |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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