For A Child Expected Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCDD EFGHIJ KLMNOP QRSTUT LLLVWX YZAAA2A2B2B2C2C2| Lovers whose lifted hands are candles in winter | A |
| Whose gentle ways like streams in the easy summer | A |
| Lying together | A |
| For secret setting of a child love what they do | B |
| Thinking they make that candle immortal those streams | C |
| forever flow | D |
| And yet do better than they know | D |
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| So the first flutter of a baby felt in the womb | E |
| Its little signal and promise of riches to come | F |
| Is taken in its father's name | G |
| Its life is the body of his love like his caress | H |
| First delicate and strange that daily use | I |
| Makes dearer and priceless | J |
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| Our baby was to be the living sign of our joy | K |
| Restore to each the other's lost infancy | L |
| To a painter's pillaging eye | M |
| Poet's coiled hearing add the heart we might earn | N |
| By the help of love all that our passion would yield | O |
| We put to planning our child | P |
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| The world flowed in whatever we liked we took | Q |
| For its hair the gold curls of the November oak | R |
| We saw on our walk | S |
| Snowberries that make a Milky Way in the wood | T |
| For its tender hands calm screen of the frozen flood | U |
| For our care of its childhood | T |
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| But the birth of a child is an uncontrollable glory | L |
| Cat's cradle of hopes will hold no living baby | L |
| Long though it lay quietly | L |
| And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born | V |
| It compels humility what we began | W |
| Is now its own | X |
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| For as the sun that shines through glass | Y |
| So Jesus in His Mother was | Z |
| Therefore every human creature | A |
| Since it shares in His nature | A |
| In candle gold passion or white | A2 |
| Sharp star should show its own way of light | A2 |
| May no parental dread or dream | B2 |
| Darken our darling's early beam | B2 |
| May she grow to her right powers | C2 |
| Unperturbed by passion of ours | C2 |
Anne Barbara Ridler
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