The March Of The Children Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCDDEEEE CCEEFFDD DDCCBBCC CCBBGGBB| From Arthur Selwyn's Note book | A |
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| The March Of The Children | B |
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| List to the sound of the drumming | C |
| Gaily the children are coming | C |
| Sweet as the smile of a fairy | D |
| Fresh as the blossoms they carry | D |
| Pride of the parents who love them | E |
| Pure as the azure above them | E |
| Free as the winds that caress them | E |
| Bright as the sunbeams that bless them | E |
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| List to the voice echoes ringing | C |
| Sweeter than birds they are singing | C |
| Thoughts that to virtue invite them | E |
| Wed unto airs that delight them | E |
| Truths that their future will cherish | F |
| Soul planted never to perish | F |
| Only to senses completer | D |
| Heaven's choicest music were sweeter | D |
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| Virtue unconscious and pretty | D |
| Walks through the streets of the city | D |
| See the gay bannerets flying | C |
| Mottoes and titles undying | C |
| Truths dearly hallowed and olden | B |
| Braided in strands that are golden | B |
| Words for the spirit's desiring | C |
| Sentences sweetly inspiring | C |
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| When in a voice of caressing | C |
| Christ gave the children His blessing | C |
| 'Twas not for one generation | B |
| But for each epoch and nation | B |
| So through the present it lingers | G |
| Shed from His bountiful fingers | G |
| So unto these it is given | B |
| Types of the angels in Heaven | B |
William Mckendree Carleton
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