The Return Of The Children Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFC CHCC| Neither the harps nor the crowns amused nor the cherubs' dove winged races | A |
| Holding hands forlornly the Children wandered beneath the Dome | B |
| Plucking the splendid robes of the passers by and with pitiful faces | A |
| Begging what Princes and Powers refused quot Ah please will you let us go home quot | C |
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| Over the jewelled floor nigh weeping ran to them Mary the Mother | D |
| Kneeled and caressed and made promise with kisses and drew them along to the gateway | E |
| Yea the all iron unbribeable Door which Peter must guard and none other | D |
| Straightway She took the Keys from his keeping and opened and freed them straightway | E |
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| Then to Her Son Who had seen and smiled She said quot On the night that I bore Thee | F |
| What didst Thou care for a love beyond mine or a heaven that was not my arm | G |
| Didst Thou push from the nipple O Child to hear the angels adore Thee | F |
| When we two lay in the breath of the kine quot And He said quot Thou hast done no harm quot | C |
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| So through the Void the Children ran homeward merrily hand in hand | C |
| Looking neither to left nor right where the breathless Heavens stood still | H |
| And the Guards of the Void resheathed their swords for they heard the Command | C |
| quot Shall I that have suffered the Children to come to Me hold them against their will quot | C |
Rudyard Kipling
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