Helen Raby Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD EFGFGF HIHIHI AAAAAAA| Where the grave deeps rot where the grave dews rust | A |
| They dug crying Earth to earth | B |
| Crying Ashes to ashes and dust to dust | A |
| And what are my poor prayers worth | B |
| Upon whom shall I call or in whom shall I trust | A |
| Though death were indeed new birth | B |
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| And they bid me be glad for my baby's sake | C |
| That she suffered sinless and young | D |
| Would they have me be glad when my breasts still ache | C |
| Where that small soft sweet mouth clung | D |
| I am glad that the heart will so surely break | C |
| That has been so bitterly wrung | D |
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| He was false they tell me and what if he were | E |
| I can only shudder and pray | F |
| Pouring out my soul in a passionate prayer | G |
| For the soul that he cast away | F |
| Was there nothing that once was created fair | G |
| In the potter's perishing clay | F |
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| Is it well for the sinner that souls endure | H |
| For the sinless soul is it well | I |
| Does the pure child lisp to the angels pure | H |
| And where does the strong man dwell | I |
| If the sad assurance of priests be sure | H |
| Or the tale that our preachers tell | I |
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| The unclean has follow'd the undefiled | A |
| And the ill may regain the good | A |
| And the man may be even as the little child | A |
| We are children lost in the wood | A |
| Lord lead us out of this tangled wild | A |
| Where the wise and the prudent have been beguil'd | A |
| And only the babes have stood | A |
Adam Lindsay Gordon
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