A Parental Ode To My Son, Aged 3 Years And 5 Months Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDEE FFBBGHIFIF JKJKLMLM NNOOPPQQRRSS FFTTFFUFFU MMJJVVPPPThou happy happy elf | A |
But stop first let me kiss away that tear | B |
Thou tiny image of myself | A |
My love he's poking peas into his ear | C |
Thou merry laughing sprite | D |
With spirits feather light | D |
Untouched by sorrow and unsoiled by sin | E |
Good Heavens the child is swallowing a pin | E |
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Thou little tricksy Puck | F |
With antic toys so funnily bestuck | F |
Light as the singing bird that wings the air | B |
The door the door he'll tumble down the stair | B |
Thou darling of thy sire | G |
Why Jane he'll set his pinafore afire | H |
Thou imp of mirth and joy | I |
In love's dear chain so strong and bright a link | F |
Thou idol of thy parents Drat the boy | I |
There goes my ink | F |
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Thou cherub but of earth | J |
Fit playfellow for Fays by moonlight pale | K |
In harmless sport and myrth | J |
That dog will bite him if he pulls its tail | K |
Thou human hummingbee extracting honey | L |
From every blossom in the world that blows | M |
Singing in youth's elysium ever sunny | L |
Another tumble that's his precious nose | M |
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Thy father's pride and hope | N |
He'll break the mirror with that skipping rope | N |
With pure heart newly stamped from Nature's mint | O |
Where did he learn that squint | O |
Thou young domestic dove | P |
He'll have that jug off with another shove | P |
Dear nursling of the Hymeneal nest | Q |
Are those torn clothes his best | Q |
Little epitome of man | R |
He'll climb upon the table that's his plan | R |
Touched with the beauteous tints of dawning life | S |
He's got a knife | S |
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Thou enviable being | F |
No storms no clouds in thy blue sky foreseeing | F |
Play on play on | T |
My elfin John | T |
Toss the light ball bestride the stick | F |
I knew so many cakes would make him sick | F |
With fancies buoyant as the thistle down | U |
Prompting the face grotesque and antic brisk | F |
With many a lamb like frisk | F |
He's got the scissors snipping at your gown | U |
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Thou pretty opening rose | M |
Go to your mother child and wipe your nose | M |
Balmy and breathing music like the South | J |
He really brings my heart into my mouth | J |
Fresh as the morn and brilliant as its star | V |
I wish that window had an iron bar | V |
Bold as the hawk yet gentle as the dove | P |
I'll tell you what my love | P |
I cannot write unless he's sent above | P |
Thomas Hood
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