A Child In Nature, As A Child In Years Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEF GHGH II| A child in nature as a child in years | A |
| If on past hours she turn remembering eyes | B |
| She but beholds sweet joys or gentle tears | C |
| Flower hiding flower in her pure memories | D |
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| So flower like so lovely do they seem | E |
| Too fair to be let die they fade too fast | F |
| Not like that hopeless beauty which in dream | E |
| Is ever present but to say 'tis past | F |
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| Then should I come with sorrow at my breast | G |
| Profitless sorrow vainly wished away | H |
| Will she give comfort to my heart's unrest | G |
| She whose bright years are as a morn of May | H |
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| Though I should sigh I could not choose but cheer | I |
| Knowing Joy is not far when she is near | I |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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