Childhood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB BBCBB CDBEDFB DDCBDGDBB CHBBBBBIJBKLBHBBBCCJ MCDBNB BOBDP DBBQBBBCB| These recollections with the scent of ferns | A |
| Are the idyll of early years | B |
| Gregorio Gutierrez Gonz lez | B |
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| Accompanying the hazy memories | B |
| Time so generously glorifies | B |
| Returning to a welcoming heart | C |
| And flocking like white butterflies | B |
| Come fantasies of happy childhood days | B |
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| Blue Beard Little Red Ridinghood | C |
| Lilliputians and the giant Gulliver | D |
| All of you floating in the mist of dreams | B |
| Spread your wings fly | E |
| So I the happy journeyer | D |
| Through storybooks may summon you | F |
| To join with other beloved characters | B |
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| O blessed youth Eyes aglimmer | D |
| With dawning discovery | D |
| Follow the weary teacher s hand | C |
| Across the big red figures | B |
| In the tattered primer | D |
| Where traces of vague recognition | G |
| Rewarding periods of youthful despondency | D |
| Beneath indifferent shadows | B |
| Begin forming letters into words | B |
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| On a dewy white | C |
| Luminous restless August morning | H |
| Helping a blazing sun rise | B |
| On wings of the breeze | B |
| Toward skies dotted with drifting clouds | B |
| Listening to a grandmother s | B |
| Exemplary fairy tales | B |
| Skipping school | I |
| To organize a clamorous battle | J |
| In which rocks rattle like bullets | B |
| And a rumpled kerchief becomes a flag | K |
| Constructing a manger scene | L |
| Of materials gathered from the woods | B |
| Then after the long rowdy outing | H |
| Arranging the grasses | B |
| Coral twigs and treasured mosses | B |
| And on strange and alien landscapes | B |
| Perspectives never seen or dreamed | C |
| Creating roads of golden sand | C |
| And waterfalls of gleaming tinsel | J |
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| Positioning the Wise Men on the hill | M |
| And overhead | C |
| The star that led them from afar | D |
| In the crib the laughing Baby Jesus | B |
| In his bed of | N |
| Softest mosses and leafy ferns | B |
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| Pristine soul blush pink cheeks | B |
| Skin like ermine on the snow | O |
| Flaxen curls | B |
| Sparkling yet peaceful eyes how fair | D |
| In memory the innocent babe | P |
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| Childhood hallowed valley | D |
| Of blessed calm and coolness | B |
| Where rays that will later blast our days | B |
| So softly shine | Q |
| How saintly your pure innocence | B |
| How fleeting your brief happiness | B |
| How sweet in hours of bitterness | B |
| To turn back to the past | C |
| And call upon those memories | B |
Jose Asuncion Silva
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