To Five Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC DEFE DGHG FIFJ KLML NCOC DPFP| Six of us once my darlings played together | A |
| Beneath green boughs which faded long ago | B |
| Made merry in the golden summer weather | A |
| Pelted each other with new fallen snow | B |
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| Did the sun always shine I can't remember | A |
| A single cloud that dimmed the happy blue | C |
| A single lightning bolt or peal of thunder | A |
| To daunt our bright unfearing lives can you | C |
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| We quarrelled often but made peace as quickly | D |
| Shed many tears but laughed the while they fell | E |
| Had our small woes our childish bumps and bruises | F |
| But Mother always kissed and made them well | E |
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| Is it long since it seems a moment only | D |
| Yet here we are in bonnets and tail coats | G |
| Grave men of business members of committees | H |
| Our play time ended even Baby votes | G |
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| And star eyed children in whose innocent faces | F |
| Kindles the gladness which was once our own | I |
| Crowd round our knees with sweet and coaxing voices | F |
| Asking for stories of that old time home | J |
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| Were you once little too they say astonished | K |
| Did you too play How funny tell us how | L |
| Almost we start forgetful for a moment | M |
| Almost we answer We are little now | L |
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| Dear friend and lover whom to day we christen | N |
| Forgive such brief bewilderment thy true | C |
| And kindly hand we hold we own thee fairest | O |
| But ah our yesterday was precious too | C |
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| So darlings take this little childish story | D |
| In which some gleams of the old sunshine play | P |
| And as with careless hands you turn the pages | F |
| Look back and smile as here I smile to day | P |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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