My Beads Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDEC FGGF CHHC IJJI KLLK| Sweet blessed beads I would not part | A |
| With one of you for richest gem | B |
| That gleams in kingly diadem | B |
| Ye know the history of my heart | A |
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| For I have told you every grief | C |
| In all the days of twenty years | D |
| And I have moistened you with tears | E |
| And in your decades found relief | C |
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| Ah time has fled and friends have failed | F |
| And joys have died but in my needs | G |
| Ye were my friends my blessed beads | G |
| And ye consoled me when I wailed | F |
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| For many and many a time in grief | C |
| My weary fingers wandered round | H |
| Thy circled chain and always found | H |
| In some Hail Mary sweet relief | C |
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| How many a story you might tell | I |
| Of inner life to all unknown | J |
| I trusted you and you alone | J |
| But ah ye keep my secrets well | I |
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| Ye are the only chain I wear | K |
| A sign that I am but the slave | L |
| In life in death beyond the grave | L |
| Of Jesus and His Mother fair | K |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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