Among School Children Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDBCEF A GHGHHHIJ A KLKLMLHH HHHHHHNN OHPHPHQR STTTTTHH TTTTTTTT LULVLUTTI | A |
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I walk through the long schoolroom questioning | B |
A kind old nun in a white hood replies | C |
The children learn to cipher and to sing | B |
To study reading books and histories | D |
To cut and sew be neat in everything | B |
In the best modern way the children's eyes | C |
In momentary wonder stare upon | E |
A sixty year old smiling public man | F |
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II | A |
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I dream of a Ledaean body bent | G |
Above a sinking fire a tale that she | H |
Told of a harsh reproof or trivial event | G |
That changed some childish day to tragedy | H |
Told and it seemed that our two natures blent | H |
Into a sphere from youthful sympathy | H |
Or else to alter Plato's parable | I |
Into the yolk and white of the one shell | J |
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III | A |
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And thinking of that fit of grief or rage | K |
I look upon one child or t'other there | L |
And wonder if she stood so at that age | K |
For even daughters of the swan can share | L |
Something of every paddler's heritage | M |
And had that colour upon cheek or hair | L |
And thereupon my heart is driven wild | H |
She stands before me as a living child | H |
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IV | - |
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Her present image floats into the mind | H |
Did Quattrocento finger fashion it | H |
Hollow of cheek as though it drank the wind | H |
And took a mess of shadows for its meat | H |
And I though never of Ledaean kind | H |
Had pretty plumage once enough of that | H |
Better to smile on all that smile and show | N |
There is a comfortable kind of old scarecrow | N |
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V | - |
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What youthful mother a shape upon her lap | O |
Honey of generation had betrayed | H |
And that must sleep shriek struggle to escape | P |
As recollection or the drug decide | H |
Would think her Son did she but see that shape | P |
With sixty or more winters on its head | H |
A compensation for the pang of his birth | Q |
Or the uncertainty of his setting forth | R |
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VI | - |
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Plato thought nature but a spume that plays | S |
Upon a ghostly paradigm of things | T |
Solider Aristotle played the taws | T |
Upon the bottom of a king of kings | T |
World famous golden thighed Pythagoras | T |
Fingered upon a fiddle stick or strings | T |
What a star sang and careless Muses heard | H |
Old clothes upon old sticks to scare a bird | H |
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VII | - |
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Both nuns and mothers worship images | T |
But thos the candles light are not as those | T |
That animate a mother's reveries | T |
But keep a marble or a bronze repose | T |
And yet they too break hearts O presences | T |
That passion piety or affection knows | T |
And that all heavenly glory symbolise | T |
O self born mockers of man's enterprise | T |
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VIII | - |
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Labour is blossoming or dancing where | L |
The body is not bruised to pleasure soul | U |
Nor beauty born out of its own despair | L |
Nor blear eyed wisdom out of midnight oil | V |
O chestnut tree great rooted blossomer | L |
Are you the leaf the blossom or the bole | U |
O body swayed to music O brightening glance | T |
How can we know the dancer from the dance | T |
William Butler Yeats
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