To My Name-child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDD EEFF GGHH FFHH IIFF| A | |
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| Some day soon this rhyming volume if you learn with proper speed | B |
| Little Louis Sanchez will be given you to read | C |
| Then you shall discover that your name was printed down | D |
| By the English printers long before in London town | D |
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| In the great and busy city where the East and West are met | E |
| All the little letters did the English printer set | E |
| While you thought of nothing and were still too young to play | F |
| Foreign people thought of you in places far away | F |
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| Ay and when you slept a baby over all the English lands | G |
| Other little children took the volume in their hands | G |
| Other children questioned in their homes across the seas | H |
| Who was little Louis won't you tell us mother please | H |
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| Now that you have spelt your lesson lay it down and go and play | F |
| Seeking shells and seaweed on the sands of Monterey | F |
| Watching all the mighty whalebones lying buried by the breeze | H |
| Tiny sandpipers and the huge Pacific seas | H |
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| And remember in your playing as the sea fog rolls to you | I |
| Long ere you could read it how I told you what to do | I |
| And that while you thought of no one nearly half the world away | F |
| Some one thought of Louis on the beach of Monterey | F |
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