The Torn Hat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEEDFGFHIJIJKK LMLMNNODODDDKIIKPPQD QDRRSJJSFFThere's something in a noble boy | A |
A brave free hearted careless one | B |
With his unchecked unbidden joy | A |
His dread of books and love of fun | B |
And in his clear and ready smile | C |
Unshaded by a thought of guile | C |
And unrepressed by sadness | D |
Which brings me to my childhood back | E |
As if I trod its very track | E |
And felt its very gladness | D |
And yet it is not in his play | F |
When every trace of thought is lost | G |
And not when you would call him gay | F |
That his bright presence thrills me most | H |
His shout may ring upon the hill | I |
His voice be echoed in the hall | J |
His merry laugh like music trill | I |
And I unheeding hear it all | J |
For like the wrinkles on my brow | K |
I scarcely notice such things now | K |
But when amid the earnest game | L |
He stops as if he music heard | M |
And heedless of his shouted name | L |
As of the carol of a bird | M |
Stands gazing on the empty air | N |
As if some dream were passing there | N |
'T is then that on his face I look | O |
His beautiful but thoughtful face | D |
And like a long forgotten book | O |
Its sweet familiar meaning trace | D |
Remembering a thousand things | D |
Which passed me on those golden wings | D |
Which time has fettered now | K |
Things that came o'er me with a thrill | I |
And left me silent sad and still | I |
And threw upon my brow | K |
A holier and a gentler cast | P |
That was too innocent to last | P |
'T is strange how thought upon a child | Q |
Will like a presence sometime press | D |
And when his pulse is beating wild | Q |
And life itself is in excess | D |
When foot and hand and ear and eye | R |
Are all with ardor straining high | R |
How in his heart will spring | S |
A feeling whose mysterious thrall | J |
Is stronger sweeter far than all | J |
And on its silent wing | S |
How with the clouds he'll float away | F |
As wandering and as lost as they | F |
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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