Innocent Child And Snow-white Flower. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF AACC| Innocent child and snow white flower | A |
| Well are ye paired in your opening hour | A |
| Thus should the pure and the lovely meet | B |
| Stainless with stainless and sweet with sweet | B |
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| White as those leaves just blown apart | C |
| Are the folds of thy own young heart | C |
| Guilty passion and cankering care | D |
| Never have left their traces there | D |
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| Artless one though thou gazest now | E |
| O'er the white blossom with earnest brow | E |
| Soon will it tire thy childish eye | F |
| Fair as it is thou wilt throw it by | F |
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| Throw it aside in thy weary hour | A |
| Throw to the ground the fair white flower | A |
| Yet as thy tender years depart | C |
| Keep that white and innocent heart | C |
William Cullen Bryant
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