The Child Impaled Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ| Beside the path on either hand | A |
| To keep the garden beds | B |
| The rusted iron pickets stand | A |
| Thin shafts and pointed heads | B |
| - | |
| And straight my spirit swooping goes | C |
| Across the waves of time | D |
| Till I'm a little boy who knows | C |
| A fence is made to climb | D |
| - | |
| And bed and lawn and gloomy space | E |
| By thicket overgrown | F |
| Are wonderlands where I may trace | E |
| The beckoning Unknown | F |
| - | |
| But O the cruelty that strikes | G |
| My elder heart with dread | H |
| The writhing form upon the spikes | G |
| The trickled pool of red | H |
| - | |
| So every day I pass and see | I |
| The fence the urchin scales | J |
| The little boy stands up in me | I |
| To curse the iron rails | J |
John Le Gay Brereton
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