Warning To Children Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDCDBEFDCDGCDCDB EHEDDDDIJBECABCBF| Children if you dare to think | A |
| Of the greatness rareness muchness | B |
| Fewness of this precious only | C |
| Endless world in which you say | B |
| You live you think of things like this | B |
| Blocks of slate enclosing dappled | D |
| Red and green enclosing tawny | C |
| Yellow nets enclosing white | D |
| And black acres of dominoes | B |
| Where a neat brown paper parcel | E |
| Tempts you to untie the string | F |
| In the parcel a small island | D |
| On the island a large tree | C |
| On the tree a husky fruit | D |
| Strip the husk and pare the rind off | G |
| In the kernel you will see | C |
| Blocks of slate enclosed by dappled | D |
| Red and green enclosed by tawny | C |
| Yellow nets enclosed by white | D |
| And black acres of dominoes | B |
| Where the same brown paper parcel | E |
| Children leave the string alone | H |
| For who dares undo the parcel | E |
| Finds himself at once inside it | D |
| On the island in the fruit | D |
| Blocks of slate about his head | D |
| Finds himself enclosed by dappled | D |
| Green and red enclosed by yellow | I |
| Tawny nets enclosed by black | J |
| And white acres of dominoes | B |
| With the same brown paper parcel | E |
| Still untied upon his knee | C |
| And if he then should dare to think | A |
| Of the fewness muchness rareness | B |
| Greatness of this endless only | C |
| Precious world in which he says | B |
| he lives he then unties the string | F |
Robert Graves
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