Ode To A Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABCDCEFGHIFGHHI JAKKKKKKAALALL KKMKMMKMKMMKM MMHHMMCHCDKDKKMHMHKE ECNNKMKM MHHOMOKHPKKPHKHHHHHM MMHQHMQ KRRKHHKKKDDSSATAHTHM H AAPPMEMNM HHKKHHHHHCCKUKKPVKKH BHMMHHHHMWKMXPHPKWAM MPKTPPKHMMHEETETX MTMXMYMHYMHH KMHHMKZZHHWWAAHHMMA2 B2EEHMK| BRIGHT as a morn of spring | A |
| That jubilates along the earth | B |
| With clouds and winds and flowers rejoicing | A |
| And all the creatures that on wing | A |
| Scarce dip the ground in their ethereal mirth | B |
| Whilst the dew'd sunlight and the gold flushed rain | C |
| Wed midway in the air | D |
| And from the twain | C |
| Is ever born that fairy gossamer | E |
| The iridescent bridge that spans the skies | F |
| Yea e'en in such wild glory dost thou glow | G |
| Soul fresh exuberant child | H |
| And drops of heavenly freshness gleam | I |
| On red red lips in dark orbed eyes | F |
| Like morning dews that glimmering show | G |
| On winter moss and heath'ry wild | H |
| And soft cropped grasses undefiled | H |
| In all the shifting splendour of a dream | I |
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| Oh thou that in thy glee | J |
| Know'st of no ending yet and no beginning | A |
| Making the hours melodious with thy play | K |
| Like grasshoppers that through the livelong day | K |
| Hopping on the new mown hay | K |
| Sun struck trill their roundelay | K |
| Or the cricket chirping cheerly | K |
| Late at night at morning early | K |
| With a little baby singing | A |
| Like an echo faintly ringing | A |
| From the distant summer leas | L |
| And with tremulous murmurs clinging | A |
| Round the hearth like clustering bees | L |
| Humming round the linden trees | L |
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| And yet athwart thy soul | K |
| At times perchance I seem to see | K |
| The hid existence of far off events | M |
| Trailing their slumb'rous shadows silently | K |
| For in the dusky deeps | M |
| Of thy large eyes | M |
| Sometime the veil d outline of a still | K |
| And mute born vision sleeps | M |
| As in the hollows of a hill | K |
| With dim and darksome rents | M |
| The dreamful shadow of the morning lies | M |
| And softly slowly ever down doth roll | K |
| Till lost in mystic deeps it flees our watchful eyes | M |
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| Yet from that silent trance | M |
| Quick leap'st thou back into thy playfulness | M |
| As waters darkened by the drifting cloud | H |
| Into the swift sweet sunlight crowd | H |
| Where dashed with dewy gold they dance | M |
| In unbedimm d sprightliness | M |
| Till with their blithesome strain | C |
| They make the brooding mountains loud | H |
| And fling their merriment across the voiceless plain | C |
| And buzzing lightly here and there | D |
| Thou like a little curious fly | K |
| That fusses through the air | D |
| Dost pry and spy | K |
| With thy keen inquisitive eye | K |
| Poking fatly dimpled fingers | M |
| Into corner box and closet | H |
| Where perchance there hidden lingers | M |
| Some deposit | H |
| To be carried off triumphantly | K |
| And with many questions ever | E |
| Rippling like a restless river | E |
| Puzzling many an older brain | C |
| Dost thou hour by hour increase thy store | N |
| Of marvellous lore | N |
| Thus a squirrel darting deftly | K |
| Up and down autumnal trees | M |
| Sees its hoard of chesnuts growing swiftly | K |
| In a heap upon the leaf strewn leas | M |
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| Yea open art thou to each influence | M |
| That strikes on thy soft spirit from without | H |
| Thy spirit not yet frozen nor shut out | H |
| From nature's kindling breath | O |
| By selfish aims nor dulled the sense | M |
| By hot desires alas too oft the death | O |
| Of man's spiritual vision No thy soul | K |
| Is yet all clear and bright | H |
| And lieth naked 'neath the eye of heaven | P |
| As a small mountain pool | K |
| A pure and azure pool | K |
| To whom its food is given | P |
| By dews and rains and snows all lily white | H |
| That softly fall | K |
| Through many a summer's day and winter's night | H |
| And whose unspotted breast | H |
| Glasses each pageant of the outer world | H |
| The cloud with pinions to the blast unfurled | H |
| The mountains' haughty crest | H |
| The slanting beam of twilight skies | M |
| That like a golden ladder lies | M |
| Stretching across perchance for angel hosts | M |
| To slide | H |
| Down to the earth with heavenly boon | Q |
| And glasses too the hurrying mists that glide | H |
| Like gliding ghosts | M |
| And stars and all the mildness of the moon | Q |
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| As yet 'tis early January with thee | K |
| Warm cradled doth the summer leaf | R |
| Lie folded in the winter leaf | R |
| On the blank tree | K |
| And folded in the earth the seed | H |
| The future mother of some glorious weed | H |
| Or flower blowing gorgeously | K |
| Or cedar branching wondrously | K |
| Lies slumbering its whole destiny | K |
| Of great or lowly foul or fair | D |
| In this minutest space surely foreshadowed there | D |
| But let the west wind ocean born | S |
| Floating towards the meads of morn | S |
| But once spread out his wild and vasty wing | A |
| Setting the sap a cantring till new life | T |
| Works wonders then thy being | A |
| Will strangely stir as at the sound | H |
| Of sounding drum and fife | T |
| The war horse paws the ground | H |
| And through thy sweet pure veins | M |
| Life like a waterfall will grandly bound | H |
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| But now the Psyche of thy being | A |
| Still shyly doth essay her delicate wing | A |
| Like to that airy nurseling of the sun | P |
| When first it breaketh through its dun | P |
| And horn d shell and tries | M |
| To move its pinions powdered o'er and o'er | E |
| With rainbow dust of April skies | M |
| That have as not yet learnt to soar | N |
| And lie soft folded in sweet mysteries | M |
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| Oh looking on thee I do speculate | H |
| On thy futurity | H |
| What wilt thou be | K |
| Some great and glorious lot I dream for thee | K |
| Some starry fate | H |
| For in thy nature meet | H |
| Such buoyant strength and such a sweet | H |
| Half veiled heart tenderness that on thy being doth rest | H |
| Like soft dark bloom upon a pansy's breast | H |
| And pity gushes o'er thee like warm rain | C |
| For everything in pain | C |
| Or great or small and such a shoal | K |
| Of thick bred fancies ever swimmeth forth | U |
| From the deep sea | K |
| Of changeful fantasy | K |
| Like golden fish that glitter in the sun | P |
| And quick perception leading on and on | V |
| Into a maze of thought fresh'ning the soul | K |
| Of him who listens Aye what wilt thou be | K |
| Perchance one of that sacred band | H |
| That ever were the salt of earth | B |
| Whom men call dowered with genius They who stand | H |
| In grandeur and in glory like the Alps | M |
| With silver shining scalps | M |
| Bathed in the ether feeding all the land | H |
| With the pure skyey waters that descend | H |
| For ever from them men who freed | H |
| From narrow bonds of hate and greed | H |
| Fetters of custom and blind circumstance | M |
| Breathe the soul quickening air of thought and love | W |
| And struggling into freedom sudden see | K |
| The solid shroud of sense | M |
| Consum d by a heavenly flame | X |
| As is the vapour dense and dun | P |
| Which the earth spirit fast doth breed | H |
| By the great sun | P |
| And the large mind in native majesty | K |
| Doth catch that radiance evermore above | W |
| Around us finest effluence of being | A |
| Illuminating with sharp sudden blaze | M |
| Nature's mysterious ways | M |
| Until his spirit feeling itself one | P |
| With all that is and was and is to be | K |
| Vibrates into intenser life | T |
| Which is creation | P |
| Then makes he revelation | P |
| Of that one truth that as a supreme ray | K |
| With new existence heavily fraught | H |
| Lightened in awful loveliness | M |
| And empyrean holiness | M |
| Upon his passive thought | H |
| Till with long peals of explosive oracular thunder | E |
| He bursts and cleaves and splinters asunder | E |
| The clinging clinking manacles of life | T |
| That fall and curl in harsh black masses under | E |
| His wing d feet and through time's noisy strife | T |
| His infinite acts do strike like flame | X |
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| Of a volcano seen across a sea | M |
| On nights when with earthquake the labouring hills are rife | T |
| And labouring too like heaving heights doth he | M |
| Girt round with turbulent whirls of praise and blame | X |
| Breathe the hot spark of that which he did see | M |
| As vital force that pulses strong and warm | Y |
| In the mid heart of creeds | M |
| Or rolls itself along the epic's flood | H |
| Or lives through ages in the marbled form | Y |
| Or leaps to life in the heroic deeds | M |
| Watering with the heart's noble blood | H |
| The seed of future world reforming good | H |
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| But stay my soul | K |
| Too far thou fliest as a falcon flies | M |
| Forgetful of the hand | H |
| Where he must perch so tranc d with the grand | H |
| And boundless skies | M |
| Oh come my song and roll | K |
| Thy billows back where on the swelling bank | Z |
| Mid flowers and reeds and grasses rank | Z |
| And feathered warblers warbling wild | H |
| Sporteth the unconscious child | H |
| Safely roofed o'er by shielding mother's love | W |
| Like wee lamb clouds of morn by tender skies above | W |
| Hark now I hear thy low soft laughter falling | A |
| Upon my heart like to the murmurous calling | A |
| Of brooding stock doves now it sweet doth sound | H |
| Like rippling rills of rain that make the ground | H |
| Harmonious on hot summer afternoons | M |
| And now thy joyous croons | M |
| Blither and brighter tumble on my ear | A2 |
| All clarion clear | B2 |
| Like songs of matin birds that in spring weather | E |
| Hid in young woods do jubilate together | E |
| Yea on the musing mind | H |
| That wrapt in meditation's sober dress | M |
| Looks i | K |
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