Looking Forward Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEE FFGGCCHH IIJJDKLL EMFFLLNN OOPQRRSS IILLTTUU VVWWXXYY ZZA2A2B2B2C2C2| How busily those little fingers soft | A |
| That within mine own are clasped so oft | B |
| Have been throughout this bright summer day | C |
| With pebbles and shells and leaves at play | C |
| They have sought birds nests plucked many a flower | D |
| Have decked with mosses the garden bower | D |
| Built tiny boats without helm to steer | E |
| Yet floated them safe o er the lakelet clear | E |
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| Ah a time will come and that ere long | F |
| When those soft hands will grow firm and strong | F |
| When they ll fling all boyish toys aside | G |
| In the dawning strength of manhood s pride | G |
| Disdaining the prizes the treasures gay | C |
| That they seize with such eager haste to day | C |
| And parting with youth s joys hopes and fears | H |
| Seek to grasp the aims of manhood s years | H |
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| Be it then thy care my gentle boy | I |
| That new born strength to well employ | I |
| Thine hand to raise in defence of right | J |
| To protect the weak gainst unjust might | J |
| Or in steadfast toil to spend its power | D |
| That toil our birthright our earthly dower | K |
| A God given law from which none are free | L |
| Whether of lofty or low degree | L |
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| And that childish voice so sweet and clear | E |
| That like music falls on my charmed ear | M |
| Waking the echoes with laugh and song | F |
| Mid wood and field through the hours long | F |
| Mocking the warbling bird in yon tree | L |
| Or lisping thy prayers beside my knee | L |
| When thy voice shall thrill with a deeper tone | N |
| Say how wilt thou use it my child my own | N |
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| To defend the cause of each sacred truth | O |
| Thou hast learned to prize in thy early youth | O |
| In kindly word to the sad the poor | P |
| To those whose cross is hard to endure | Q |
| Wilt thou raise it in telling thy Maker s praise | R |
| In winning souls to His love and ways | R |
| But never in proud or unholy strife | S |
| Or in words with wrong to a brother rife | S |
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| And thy guileless heart whose truth my boy | I |
| Is to me a source of the purest joy | I |
| In whose sinless depths I can plainly see | L |
| That as yet from all thought of ill tis free | L |
| When manhood s down shall have clothed thy cheek | T |
| When pleasure shall tempt and passion speak | T |
| When beset by snares that have others beguiled | U |
| Ah what wilt thou do with thy heart my child | U |
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| Guard it as treasure of price untold | V |
| In value beyond earth s gems and gold | V |
| Guard it from breath from shadow of sin | W |
| No tempter must foothold gain therein | W |
| Let love of thy God and love of thy kind | X |
| Like tendrils around it closely wind | X |
| Blending those feelings of purest worth | Y |
| With love for Canada land of thy birth | Y |
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| If my prayer be answered with tranquil breast | Z |
| I shall go content to my final rest | Z |
| When death s icy finger has touched the brow | A2 |
| That bends above thee so fondly now | A2 |
| Till then I will daily ask of Heaven | B2 |
| That in manhood it may to thee be given | B2 |
| To devote thy voice thy heart and thy hand | C2 |
| To God thy kind and thy native land | C2 |
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
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