Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DBDB EFEFGG CBCB HIHIJJ KBKB LMLMAA NBNB OPOPQQ RBRB STSTUU VBVB| A baby played with the surplice sleeve | A |
| Of a gentle priest while in accents low | B |
| The sponsors murmured the grand I believe | A |
| And the priest bade the mystic waters to flow | B |
| In the name of the Father and the Son | C |
| And Holy Spirit Three in One | C |
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| Spotless as a lily's leaf | D |
| Whiter than the Christmas snow | B |
| Not a sign of sin or grief | D |
| And the babe laughed sweet and low | B |
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| A smile flitted over the baby's face | E |
| Or was it the gleam of its angel's wing | F |
| Just passing then and leaving a trace | E |
| Of its presence as it soared to sing | F |
| A hymn when words and waters win | G |
| To grace and life a child of sin | G |
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| Not an outward sign or token | C |
| That a child was saved from woe | B |
| But the bonds of sin were broken | C |
| And the babe laughed sweet and low | B |
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| A cloud rose up to the mother's eyes | H |
| And out of the cloud grief's rain fell fast | I |
| Came the baby's smiles and the mother's sighs | H |
| Out of the future or the past | I |
| Ah gleam and gloom must ever meet | J |
| And gall must mingle with the sweet | J |
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| Yea upon the baby's laughter | K |
| Trickled tears 'tis ever so | B |
| Mothers dread the dark hereafter | K |
| But the babe laughed sweet and low | B |
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| And the years like waves broke on the shore | L |
| Of the mother's heart and her baby's life | M |
| But her lone heart drifted away before | L |
| Her little boy knew an hour of strife | M |
| Drifted away on a Summer's eve | A |
| Ere the orphaned child knew how to grieve | A |
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| Her humble grave was gently made | N |
| Where roses bloomed in Summer's glow | B |
| The wild birds sang where her heart was laid | N |
| And her boy laughed sweet and low | B |
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| He drifted away from his mother's grave | O |
| Like a fragile flower on a great stream's tide | P |
| Till he heard the moan of the mighty wave | O |
| That welcomed the stream to the ocean wide | P |
| Out from the shore and over the deep | Q |
| He sailed away and learned to weep | Q |
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| Furrowed grew the face once fair | R |
| Under storms of human woe | B |
| Silvered grew the dark brown hair | R |
| And he wailed so sad and low | B |
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| The years swept on as erst they swept | S |
| Bright wavelets once dark billows now | T |
| Wherever he sailed he ever wept | S |
| A cloud hung over the darkened brow | T |
| Over the deep and into the dark | U |
| But no one knew where sank his bark | U |
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| Wild roses watched his mother's tomb | V |
| The world still laughed 'tis ever so | B |
| God only knows the baby's doom | V |
| That laughed so sweet and low | B |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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