Loving And Liking - Irregular Verses - Addressed To A Child (by My Sister) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKLLJJMM NNMMJJMMMM OOMMMMPQJJ RRSSTTJJUUHHMMMMHHRR V| There's more in words than I can teach | A |
| Yet listen Child I would not preach | A |
| But only give some plain directions | B |
| To guide your speech and your affections | B |
| Say not you 'love' a roasted fowl | C |
| But you may love a screaming owl | C |
| And if you can the unwieldy toad | D |
| That crawls from his secure abode | D |
| Within the mossy garden wall | E |
| When evening dews begin to fall | E |
| Oh mark the beauty of his eye | F |
| What wonders in that circle lie | F |
| So clear so bright our fathers said | G |
| He wears a jewel in his head | G |
| And when upon some showery day | H |
| Into a path or public way | H |
| A frog leaps out from bordering grass | I |
| Startling the timid as they pass | I |
| Do you observe him and endeavour | J |
| To take the intruder into favour | J |
| Learning from him to find a reason | K |
| For a light heart in a dull season | K |
| And you may love him in the pool | L |
| That is for him a happy school | L |
| In which he swims as taught by nature | J |
| Fit pattern for a human creature | J |
| Glancing amid the water bright | M |
| And sending upward sparkling light | M |
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| Nor blush if o'er your heart be stealing | N |
| A love for things that have no feeling | N |
| The spring's first rose by you espied | M |
| May fill your breast with joyful pride | M |
| And you may love the strawberry flower | J |
| And love the strawberry in its bower | J |
| But when the fruit so often praised | M |
| For beauty to your lip is raised | M |
| Say not you 'love' the delicate treat | M |
| But 'like' it enjoy it and thankfully eat | M |
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| Long may you love your pensioner mouse | O |
| Though one of a tribe that torment the house | O |
| Nor dislike for her cruel sport the cat | M |
| Deadly foe both of mouse and rat | M |
| Remember she follows the law of her kind | M |
| And Instinct is neither wayward nor blind | M |
| Then think of her beautiful gliding form | P |
| Her tread that would scarcely crush a worm | Q |
| And her soothing song by the winter fire | J |
| Soft as the dying throb of the lyre | J |
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| I would not circumscribe your love | R |
| It may soar with the eagle and brood with the dove | R |
| May pierce the earth with the patient mole | S |
| Or track the hedgehog to his hole | S |
| Loving and liking are the solace of life | T |
| Rock the cradle of joy smooth the death bed of strife | T |
| You love your father and your mother | J |
| Your grown up and your baby brother | J |
| You love your sister and your friends | U |
| And countless blessings which God sends | U |
| And while these right affections play | H |
| You 'live' each moment of your day | H |
| They lead you on to full content | M |
| And likings fresh and innocent | M |
| That store the mind the memory feed | M |
| And prompt to many a gentle deed | M |
| But 'likings' come and pass away | H |
| 'Tis 'love' that remains till our latest day | H |
| Our heavenward guide is holy love | R |
| And will be our bliss with saints above | R |
| nbsp | V |
William Wordsworth
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