An Old Doll Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Low on her little stool she sits	B
To make a nursing lap	C
And cares for nothing but the form	D
Her little arms enwrap	C
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With hairless skull that gapes apart	E
A broken plaster ball	F
One chipped glass eye that squints askew	G
And ne'er a nose at all	F
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No raddle left on grimy cheek	H
No mouth that one can see	I
It scarce discloses at a glance	J
What it was meant to be	I
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But something in the simple scheme	K
As it extends below	L
It is the 'tidy' from my chair	M
That she is rumpling so	L
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A certain folding of the stuff	N
That winds the thing about	O
But still permits the sawdust gore	P
To trickle down and out	O
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The way it curves around her waist	Q
On little knees outspread	Q
Implies a body frail and dear	R
Whence one infers a head	Q
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She rocks the scarecrow to and fro	L
With croonings soft and deep	C
A lullaby designed to hush	S
The bunch of rags to sleep	C
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I ask what rubbish has she there	M
'My dolly ' she replies	T
But tone and smile and gesture say	U
'My angel from the skies '	-
Inefflable the look of love	V
Cast on the hideous blur	W
That somehow means a precious face	X
Most beautiful to her	W
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The deftness and the tenderness	Y
Of her caressing hands	Z
How can she possibly divine	A2
For what the creature stands	Z
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Herself a nurseling that has seen	B2
The summers and the snows	C2
Of scarce five years of baby life	D2
And yet she knows she knows	C2
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Just as a puppy of the pack	E2
Knows unheard huntsman's call	F
And knows it is a running hound	Q
Before it learns to crawl	F
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Just as she knew when hardly born	F2
The breast unseen before	P
And knew how well before they touched	Q
What milk and mouth were for	P
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So by some mystic extra sense	G2
Denied to eyes and ears	H2
Her spirit communes with its own	I2
Beyond the veil of years	H2
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She hears unechoing footsteps run	J2
On floors she never trod	Q
Sees lineaments invisible	K2
As is the face of God	Q
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Forms she can recognise and greet	Q
Though wholly hid from me	I
Alas a treasure that is not	Q
And that may never be	I
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The majesty of motherhood	Q
Sits on her baby brow	L2
Before her little three legged throne	I2
My grizzled head must bow	L2
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That dingy bundle in her arms	M2
Symbols immortal things	N2
A heritage by right divine	A2
Beyond the claims of kings	N2

Ada Cambridge

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