A Child's Hair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AAABAB CCCDCD EEEFEF GGGHGH EFFIFI J EEEJJKJL MMNHMH OOOEOE PPPJPJ QQQRQR SSSFSF TTTETE AAAUAU EEEEEE

A letter from abroad I tearA
Its sheathing open unawareA
What treasure gleams within and thereA
Like bird from cageB
Flutters a curl of golden hairA
Out of the pageB
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From such a frolic head 'twas shornC
'Tis but five years since he was bornC
Not sunlight scampering over cornC
Were merrier thingD
A child A fragment of the mornC
A piece of SpringD
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Surely an ampler fuller dayE
Than drapes our English skies with greyE
A deeper light a richer rayE
Than here we knowF
To this bright tress have given awayE
Their living glowF
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For Willie dwells where gentian flowersG
Make mimic sky in mountain bowersG
And vineyards steeped in ardent hoursG
Slope to the waveH
Where storied Chillon's tragic towersG
Their bases laveH
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And over piny tracts of VaudE
The rose of eve steals up the snowF
And on the waters far belowF
Strange sails like wingsI
Half bodilessly come and goF
Fantastic thingsI
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And tender night falls like a sighJ
On-
ch letE
low andE
ch teauE
highJ
And the far cataract's voice comes nighJ
Where no man hearsK
And spectral peaks impale the skyJ
On silver spearsL
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Ah Willie whose dissevered tressM
Lies in my hand may you possessM
At least one sovereign happinessN
Ev'n to your graveH
One boon than which I ask naught lessM
Naught greater craveH
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May cloud and mountain lake and valeO
Never to you be trite or staleO
As unto souls whose wellsprings failO
Or flow defiledE
Till Nature's happiest fairy taleO
Charms not her childE
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For when the spirit waxes numbP
Alien and strange these shows becomeP
And stricken with life's tediumP
The streams run dryJ
The choric spheres themselves are dumbP
And dead the skyJ
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Dead as to captives grown supineQ
Chained to their task in sightless mineQ
Above the bland day smiles benignQ
Birds carol freeR
In thunderous throes of life divineQ
Leaps the glad seaR
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But they their day and night are oneS
What is't to them that rivulets runS
Or what concern of theirs the sunS
It seems as thoughF
Their business with these things was doneS
Ages agoF
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Only at times each dulled heart feelsT
That somewhere sealed with hopeless sealsT
The unmeaning heaven about him reelsT
And he lies hurledE
Beyond the roar of all the wheelsT
Of all the worldE
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On what strange track one's fancies fareA
To eyeless night in sunless lairA
'Tis a far cry from Willie's hairA
And here it liesU
Human yet something which can ne'erA
Grow sad and wiseU
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Which when the head where late it layE
In life's grey dusk itself is greyE
And when the curfew of life's dayE
By death is tolledE
Shall forfeit not the auroral rayE
And eastern goldE

William Watson



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