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 UNN| I | A |
| This is a schoolyard | B |
| crowded | C |
| with children | D |
| - | |
| of all ages near a village | E |
| on a small stream | F |
| meandering by | A |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| a play wedding a | L |
| christening | H |
| nearby one leans | M |
| - | |
| hollering | H |
| into | N |
| an empty hogshead | N |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| Little girls | O |
| whirling their skirts about | N |
| until they stand out flat | N |
| - | |
| tops pinwheels | O |
| to run in the wind with | P |
| or a toy in tiers to spin | Q |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| standing on your head | N |
| run the gauntlet | N |
| a dozen on their backs | O |
| - | |
| feet together kicking | H |
| through which a boy must pass | O |
| roll the hoop or a | L |
| - | |
| construction | D |
| made of bricks | O |
| some mason has abandoned | N |
| - | |
| III | A |
| - | |
| The desperate toys | O |
| of children | D |
| their | S |
| - | |
| imagination equilibrium | T |
| and rocks | O |
| which are to be | U |
| - | |
| found | N |
| everywhere | S |
| and games to drag | V |
| - | |
| the other down | W |
| blindfold | N |
| to make use of | X |
| - | |
| a swinging | H |
| weight | N |
| with which | Y |
| - | |
| at random | T |
| to bash in the | L |
| heads about | N |
| - | |
| them | Z |
| Brueghel saw it all | K |
| and with his grim | A2 |
| - | |
| humor faithfully | U |
| recorded | N |
| it | N |
William Carlos Williams
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