The document summarizes a poem about a child coming of age and realizing that childhood cannot be regained. It notes that the poem characterizes adulthood, recognizes hypocrisy in adults, and describes the child developing its own individuality. The lyrical refrain asks when childhood went away. The analysis finds that the poem uses simple words and structures with an informal tone to ask rhetorical questions about losing childhood in a way that has universal appeal by touching on a theme all adults face.

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2.  Characterizes adulthood
 Learns to be rational
 Hell and heaven could not be found in Geography
 Recognizes adult hypocrisy
 Adults talked of love….. But did not act so lovingly
 Develops his own individuality
 Producing thoughts that were ……But my own
 Describes the process of growing up of a child

3. Childhood is lost……. Hidden in an infant’s face,
That’s all I know ( metaphorical statement)
The realization that it will not be found again in this
life anymore.

4.  Lyrical refrain is heard
When did my childhood go?. Was that the day?
 Use of rhetorical questions (stanza 1-3)
Almost all sentences are interrogatives that carry their
own answers
 Use of declarative sentences in stanza 4
The voice of conviction

5.  Simple words
 Undemanding sentence structures
 Informal conversational tone
 Straightforward rhetorical structure
 Question- answer-rhetorical question
 Concluding statement at the end

6.  Appeals to all adults
 Provides thought for introspection
 Expresses something that everyone is concerned
about at some time or another
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