Two Songs For A Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDED FGHG IJKJ AL ICMC NAOA PHQH| I | A |
| Grandfather's Love | B |
| - | |
| They said he sent his love to me | C |
| They wouldn't put it in my hand | D |
| And when I asked them where it was | E |
| They said I couldn't understand | D |
| - | |
| I thought they must have hidden it | F |
| I hunted for it all the day | G |
| And when I told them so at night | H |
| They smiled and turned their heads away | G |
| - | |
| They say that love is something kind | I |
| That I can never see or touch | J |
| I wish he'd sent me something else | K |
| I like his cough drops twice as much | J |
| - | |
| II | A |
| The Kind Moon | L |
| - | |
| I think the moon is very kind | I |
| To take such trouble just for me | C |
| He came along with me from home | M |
| To keep me company | C |
| - | |
| He went as fast as I could run | N |
| I wonder how he crossed the sky | A |
| I'm sure he hasn't legs and feet | O |
| Or any wings to fly | A |
| - | |
| Yet here he is above their roof | P |
| Perhaps he thinks it isn't right | H |
| For me to go so far alone | Q |
| Tho' mother said I might | H |
Sara Teasdale
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