The Teacher's Lesson. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HGHG IJIJ KLKL KMKM NLNL OPOP QLQL RSRS| I 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 |
Samuel Griswold Goodrich
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