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Taking the title into consideration, the poem may be about the speaking voice's emotions in front of a positive or negative unexpected event. To leap up means, in fact, fill up with joy.

The poem is made up of only one stanza but the intelligent reader can understand that it is arranged into three parts.

The first part covers the first two lines; in this part the poet tells the reader his heart fills up with joy when he sees a rainbow in the sky.

The second sections covers from the third to the sixth lines; the writer said that so was it when his life began and that it is still so, besides so it must be when he shall grow old otherwise he'd rather die.

The last part covers the last three lines. There the poet tells the reader that the child is father of the man and he wishes that his days will always be bound each other by worship of nature.

The function of the first section is to introduce the reader in the speaking voice's feelings: he describes what happen when the speaking voice is in front of a rainbow.

The poet uses the word rainbow but it is just a metaphor to indicate a natural event.

The rainbow can also be a metaphor to indicate a good period after a worst one; the rainbow generally comes in fact after a storm.

After the colon starts the second part of the poem which function is to inform the reader that his positive reaction in front of a natural event covers all his life and he hopes that so will be also in the future or he prefers to die.

The function of the last one section is to give an explanation for what he said previously.

Moreover it's important notice the paradox in the seventh line, where the writer says that the child is father of the man.

This means that the child teaches to the adult to me more emotional.

Child and father are capitalized: the poet wants to attract the reader's attention on this to words.