A Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFCGFHFFIJK LCMFNOA child | A |
Curious and innocent | B |
Slips from his Nurse and rejoicing | C |
Loses himself in the Fair | D |
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Thro' the jostle and din | E |
Wandering he revels | F |
Dreaming desiring possessing | C |
Till of a sudden | G |
Tired and afraid he beholds | F |
The sordid assemblage | H |
Just as it is and he runs | F |
With a sob to his Nurse | F |
Lighting at last on him | I |
And in her motherly bosom | J |
Cries him to sleep | K |
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Thus thro' the World | L |
Seeing and feeling and knowing | C |
Goes Man till at last | M |
Tired of experience he turns | F |
To the friendly and comforting breast | N |
Of the old nurse Death | O |
William Ernest Henley
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