On A Picture Of Children Playing. By Fisher Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GCHCIJAJ KLMLBNON JPQPRBSB| I love to look on a scene like this | A |
| Of wild and careless play | B |
| And persuade myself that I am not old | C |
| And my locks are not yet gray | B |
| For it stirs the blood in old man's heart | D |
| And makes his pulses fly | E |
| To catch the thrill of a happy voice | F |
| And the light of a pleasant eye | E |
| - | |
| I have walked the world for fourscore years | G |
| And they say that I am old | C |
| That my heart is ripe for the reaper Death | H |
| And my years are well nigh told | C |
| It is very true it is very true | I |
| I'm old and 'I bide my time' | J |
| But my heart will leap at a scene like this | A |
| And I half renew my prime | J |
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| Play on play on I am with you there | K |
| In the midst of your merry ring | L |
| I can feel the thrill of the daring jump | M |
| And the rush of the breathless swing | L |
| I hide with you in the fragrant hay | B |
| And I whoop the smothered call | N |
| And my feet slip up on the seedy floor | O |
| And I care not for the fall | N |
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| I am willing to die when my time shall come | J |
| And I shall be glad to go | P |
| For the world at best is a weary place | Q |
| And my pulse is getting low | P |
| But the grave is dark and the heart will fail | R |
| In treading its gloomy way | B |
| And it wiles my heart from its dreariness | S |
| To see the young so gay | B |
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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