A Child-s Treasures Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIKLMLM NONOBPBP QRQRSASA| Thou art home at last my darling one | A |
| Flushed and tired with thy play | B |
| From morning dawn until setting sun | A |
| Hast thou been at sport away | B |
| And thy steps are weary hot thy brow | C |
| Yet thine eyes with joy are bright | D |
| Ah I read the riddle show me now | C |
| The treasures thou graspest tight | D |
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| A pretty pebble a tiny shell | E |
| A feather by wild bird cast | F |
| Gay flowers gathered in forest dell | E |
| Already withering fast | F |
| Four speckled eggs in a soft brown nest | G |
| Thy last and thy greatest prize | H |
| Such the things that fill with joy thy breast | G |
| With laughing light thine eyes | H |
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| Ah my child what right have I to smile | I |
| And whisper too dearly bought | J |
| By wand ring many a weary mile | I |
| Dust heat and toilsome thought | K |
| For we the children of riper years | L |
| Task aching heart and brain | M |
| Waste yearning hopes and anxious fears | L |
| On baubles just as vain | M |
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| For empty title ribbon or star | N |
| For worshipped and much sought gold | O |
| How men will struggle at home afar | N |
| And suffer toils untold | O |
| Plodding their narrow and earth bound way | B |
| Amid restless care and strife | P |
| Wasting not merely a fleeting day | B |
| But the precious years of life | P |
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| And thou fair child with to morrow s dawn | Q |
| Wilt rise up calm and glad | R |
| To cull wild flowers mid wood and lawn | Q |
| Untroubled by memory sad | R |
| But alas the worldly wise of earth | S |
| When life s last bonds are riven | A |
| Will find that for things of meanest worth | S |
| They ve lost both Life and Heaven | A |
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
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