To A Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK LMNO LPQP RKS| When I was a child I saw | A |
| a burning bird in a tree | B |
| I see became I am | C |
| I am became I see | B |
| - | |
| In winter dawns of frost | D |
| the lamp swung in my hand | E |
| The battered moon on the slope | F |
| lay like a dune of sand | E |
| - | |
| and in the trap at my feet | G |
| the rabbit leapt and prayed | H |
| weeping blood and crouched | I |
| when the light shone on the blade | H |
| - | |
| The sudden sun lit up | J |
| the webs from wire to wire | K |
| the white webs the white dew | L |
| blazed with a holy fire | K |
| - | |
| Flame of light in the dew | L |
| flame of blood on the bush | M |
| answered the whirling sun | N |
| and the voice of the early thrush | O |
| - | |
| I think of this for you | L |
| I would not have you believe | P |
| the world is empty of truth | Q |
| or that men must grieve | P |
| - | |
| but hear the song of the martyrs | R |
| out of a bush of fire | K |
| 'All is consumed with love | S |
| all is renewed with desire ' | - |
Judith Wright
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