Infantile Influence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B AACDDC AAAAAA EEFBBF GGHIII AAIIII JJKLMN IIAIIA OOIAAI PQOIIO R| Lorsque l'enfant parait | A |
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| XIX May | B |
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| The child comes toddling in and young and old | A |
| With smiling eyes its smiling eyes behold | A |
| And artless babyish joy | C |
| A playful welcome greets it through the room | D |
| The saddest brow unfolds its wrinkled gloom | D |
| To greet the happy boy | C |
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| If June with flowers has spangled all the ground | A |
| Or winter bleak the flickering hearth around | A |
| Draws close the circling seat | A |
| The child still sheds a never failing light | A |
| We call Mamma with mingled joy and fright | A |
| Watches its tottering feet | A |
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| Perhaps at eve as round the fire we draw | E |
| We speak of heaven or poetry or law | E |
| Or politics or prayer | F |
| The child comes in 'tis now all smiles and play | B |
| Farewell to grave discourse and poet's lay | B |
| Philosophy and care | F |
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| When fancy wakes but sense in heaviest sleep | G |
| Lies steeped and like the sobs of them that weep | G |
| The dark stream sinks and swells | H |
| The dawn like Pharos gleaming o'er the sea | I |
| Bursts forth and sudden wakes the minstrelsy | I |
| Of birds and chiming bells | I |
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| Thou art my dawn my soul is as the field | A |
| Where sweetest flowers their balmy perfumes yield | A |
| When breathed upon by thee | I |
| Of forest where thy voice like zephyr plays | I |
| And morn pours out its flood of golden rays | I |
| When thy sweet smile I see | I |
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| Oh sweetest eyes like founts of liquid blue | J |
| And little hands that evil never knew | J |
| Pure as the new formed snow | K |
| Thy feet are still unstained by this world's mire | L |
| Thy golden locks like aureole of fire | M |
| Circle thy cherub brow | N |
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| Dove of our ark thine angel spirit flies | I |
| On azure wings forth from thy beaming eyes | I |
| Though weak thine infant feet | A |
| What strange amaze this new and strange world gives | I |
| To thy sweet virgin soul that spotless lives | I |
| In virgin body sweet | A |
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| Oh gentle face radiant with happy smile | O |
| And eager prattling tongue that knows no guile | O |
| Quick changing tears and bliss | I |
| Thy soul expands to catch this new world's light | A |
| Thy mazed eyes to drink each wondrous sight | A |
| Thy lips to taste the kiss | I |
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| Oh God bless me and mine and these I love | P |
| And e'en my foes that still triumphant prove | Q |
| Victors by force or guile | O |
| A flowerless summer may we never see | I |
| Or nest of bird bereft or hive of bee | I |
| Or home of infant's smile | O |
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| HENRY HIGHTON M A | R |
Victor-marie Hugo
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