Parentage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBC DEEDDE| When Augustus Caesar legislated against the unmarried citizens of Rome he declared them to be in some sort slayers of the people | A |
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| Ah no not these | B |
| These who were childless are not they who gave | C |
| So many dead unto the journeying wave | C |
| The helpless nurslings of the cradling seas | B |
| Not they who doomed by infallible decrees | B |
| Unnumbered man to the innumerable grave | C |
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| But those who slay | D |
| Are fathers Theirs are armies Death is theirs | E |
| The death of innocences and despairs | E |
| The dying of the golden and the grey | D |
| The sentence when these speak it has no Nay | D |
| And she who slays is she who bears who bears | E |
Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
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