The Child And The Sage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGG IGIG J| You say O Sage when weather checked | A |
| I have been favoured so | B |
| With cloudless skies I must expect | A |
| This dash of rain or snow | B |
| - | |
| Since health has been my lot you say | C |
| So many months of late | D |
| I must not chafe that one short day | C |
| Of sickness mars my state | D |
| - | |
| You say Such bliss has been my share | E |
| From Love's unbroken smile | F |
| It is but reason I should bear | E |
| A cross therein awhile | F |
| - | |
| And thus you do not count upon | G |
| Continuance of joy | H |
| But when at ease expect anon | G |
| A burden of annoy | G |
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| But Sage this Earth why not a place | I |
| Where no reprisals reign | G |
| Where never a spell of pleasantness | I |
| Makes reasonable a pain | G |
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| December | J |
Thomas Hardy
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