Children's Games Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFA GHI JHD HKA LHM HNN A ONN OPQ ORL OOO NNO HOL DON A ODS TOU NSV WNX HNY TLN ZKA2 UNNI | A |
This is a schoolyard | B |
crowded | C |
with children | D |
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of all ages near a village | E |
on a small stream | F |
meandering by | A |
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where some boys | G |
are swimming | H |
bare ass | I |
- | |
or climbing a tree in leaf | J |
everything | H |
is motion | D |
- | |
elder women are looking | H |
after the small | K |
fry | A |
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a play wedding a | L |
christening | H |
nearby one leans | M |
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hollering | H |
into | N |
an empty hogshead | N |
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II | A |
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Little girls | O |
whirling their skirts about | N |
until they stand out flat | N |
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tops pinwheels | O |
to run in the wind with | P |
or a toy in tiers to spin | Q |
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with a piece | O |
of twine to make it go | R |
blindman's buff follow the | L |
- | |
leader stilts | O |
high and low tipcat jacks | O |
bowls hanging by the knees | O |
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standing on your head | N |
run the gauntlet | N |
a dozen on their backs | O |
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feet together kicking | H |
through which a boy must pass | O |
roll the hoop or a | L |
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construction | D |
made of bricks | O |
some mason has abandoned | N |
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III | A |
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The desperate toys | O |
of children | D |
their | S |
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imagination equilibrium | T |
and rocks | O |
which are to be | U |
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found | N |
everywhere | S |
and games to drag | V |
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the other down | W |
blindfold | N |
to make use of | X |
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a swinging | H |
weight | N |
with which | Y |
- | |
at random | T |
to bash in the | L |
heads about | N |
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them | Z |
Brueghel saw it all | K |
and with his grim | A2 |
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humor faithfully | U |
recorded | N |
it | N |
William Carlos Williams
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