The Teacher's Lesson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HGHG IJIJ KLKL KMKM NLNL OPOP QLQL RSRSI saw a child some four years old | A |
Along a meadow stray | B |
Alone she went unchecked untold | A |
Her home not far away | B |
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She gazed around on earth and sky | C |
Now paused and now proceeded | D |
Hill valley wood she passed them by | C |
Unmarked perchance unheeded | E |
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And now gay groups of roses bright | F |
In circling thickets bound her | G |
Yet on she went with footsteps light | F |
Still gazing all around her | G |
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And now she paused and now she stooped | H |
And plucked a little flower | G |
A simple daisy 'twas that drooped | H |
Within a rosy bower | G |
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The child did kiss the little gem | I |
And to her bosom pressed it | J |
And there she placed the fragile stem | I |
And with soft words caressed it | J |
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I love to read a lesson true | K |
From nature's open book | L |
And oft I learn a lesson new | K |
From childhood's careless look | L |
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Children are simple loving true | K |
'Tis Heaven that made them so | M |
And would you teach them be so too | K |
And stoop to what they know | M |
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Begin with simple lessons things | N |
On which they love to look | L |
Flowers pebbles insects birds on wings | N |
These are God's spelling book | L |
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And children know His A B C | O |
As bees where flowers are set | P |
Would'st thou a skilful teacher be | O |
Learn then this alphabet | P |
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From leaf to leaf from page to page | Q |
Guide thou thy pupil's look | L |
And when he says with aspect sage | Q |
Who made this wondrous book | L |
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Point thou with reverent gaze to heaven | R |
And kneel in earnest prayer | S |
That lessons thou hast humbly given | R |
May lead thy pupil there | S |
Sam G. Goodrich
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