The Child In Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCB DEFEGGE HIHIJJI EKEKLLK| She follows me about my House of Life | A |
| This happy little ghost of my dead Youth | B |
| She has no part in Time's relentless strife | A |
| She keeps her old simplicity and truth | B |
| And laughs at grim Mortality | C |
| This deathless Child that stays with me | C |
| This happy little ghost of my dead Youth | B |
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| My House of Life is weather stained with years | D |
| O Child in Me I wonder why you stay | E |
| Its windows are bedimmed with rain of tears | F |
| The walls have lost their rose its thatch is gray | E |
| One after one its guests depart | G |
| So dull a host is my old heart | G |
| O Child in Me I wonder why you stay | E |
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| For jealous Age whose face I would forget | H |
| Pulls the bright flowers you bring me from my hair | I |
| And powders it with snow and yet and yet | H |
| I love your dancing feet and jocund air | I |
| I have no taste for caps of lace | J |
| To tie about my faded face | J |
| I love to wear your flowers in my hair | I |
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| O Child in Me leave not my House of Clay | E |
| Until we pass together through the Door | K |
| When lights are out and Life has gone away | E |
| And we depart to come again no more | K |
| We comrades who have travelled far | L |
| Will hail the Twilight and the Star | L |
| And smiling pass together through the Door | K |
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