Granny Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG BHIH JKLK MNON PQRQ STDT KUVU WCXC XCBC CYCY ZA2B2A2 JCBC CC2CD2 E2CF2C G2H2I2C| Here in her elbow chair she sits | A |
| A soul alert alive | B |
| A poor old body shrunk and bent | C |
| The queen bee of the hive | B |
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| But hives of bees and hives of men | D |
| Obey their several laws | E |
| No fiercely loving filial throng | F |
| This mother head adores | G |
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| This bringer of world wealth whereof | B |
| None may compute the worth | H |
| Is possibly of no account | I |
| To anyone on earth | H |
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| Her cap and spectacles that mean | J |
| Dim eyes and scanty hairs | K |
| The humble symbols of her state | L |
| The only crown she wears | K |
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| Lacking a kingdom and a court | M |
| A relic of the past | N |
| Almost a cumberer of the ground | O |
| That is our queen at last | N |
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| But still not wholly without place | P |
| Nor quite bereft of power | Q |
| A useful stopgap a resource | R |
| In many a troubled hour | Q |
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| She darns the stockings keeps the house | S |
| The nurseless infant tends | T |
| While the young matrons and the men | D |
| Pursue their various ends | T |
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| Too keen set on their great affairs | K |
| Or little plays and pranks | U |
| The things and people of their world | V |
| To give her thought or thanks | U |
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| The children on whom all her thought | W |
| And time and love were spent | C |
| Through half a century of years | X |
| Yet is she well content | C |
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| The schooling of those fiery years | X |
| It has not been for nought | C |
| A large philosophy of life | B |
| Has self less service taught | C |
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| The outlook from the heights attained | C |
| By climbings sore and slow | Y |
| Discovers worlds of wisdom hid | C |
| From clearest eyes below | Y |
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| So calmly in her elbow chair | Z |
| Forgotten and alone | A2 |
| She knits and dreams and sometimes sighs | B2 |
| But never makes a moan | A2 |
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| Still dwelling with her brood unseen | J |
| Ghosts of a bygone day | C |
| The precious daughter in her grave | B |
| The dear son gone astray | C |
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| And others to whom once she stood | C |
| As only light and law | C2 |
| The near and living and yet lost | C |
| That need her love no more | D2 |
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| Watching their joyous setting forth | E2 |
| To mingle with their kind | C |
| With scarce a pang with ne'er a grudge | F2 |
| At being left behind | C |
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| 'Let them be young as I was young | G2 |
| And happy while they may' | H2 |
| A dog that waits the night in peace | I2 |
| Since it has had its day | C |
Ada Cambridge
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