Children Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON| A word will fill the little heart | A |
| With pleasure and with pride | B |
| It is a harsh a cruel thing | C |
| That such can be denied | B |
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| And yet how many weary hours | D |
| Those joyous creatures know | E |
| How much of sorrow and restraint | F |
| They to their elders owe | E |
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| How much they suffer from our faults | G |
| How much from our mistakes | H |
| How often too mistaken zeal | I |
| An infant's misery makes | H |
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| We overrule and overteach | J |
| We curb and we confine | K |
| And put the heart to school too soon | L |
| To learn our narrow line | K |
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| No only taught by love to love | M |
| Seems childhood's natural task | N |
| Affection gentleness and hope | O |
| Are all its brief years ask | N |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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