Before The Birth Of One Of Her Children Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCAADDEEFFGHDDII JJDDKKLL| All things within this fading world hath end | A |
| Adversity doth still our joys attend | A |
| No ties so strong no friends so dear and sweet | B |
| But with death's parting blow are sure to meet | B |
| The sentence past is most irrevocable | C |
| A common thing yet oh inevitable | C |
| How soon my Dear death may my steps attend | A |
| How soon't may be thy lot to lose thy friend | A |
| We both are ignorant yet love bids me | D |
| These farewell lines to recommend to thee | D |
| That when the knot's untied that made us one | E |
| I may seem thine who in effect am none | E |
| And if I see not half my days that's due | F |
| What nature would God grant to yours and you | F |
| The many faults that well you know I have | G |
| Let be interred in my oblivious grave | H |
| If any worth or virtue were in me | D |
| Let that live freshly in thy memory | D |
| And when thou feel'st no grief as I no harmes | I |
| Yet love thy dead who long lay in thine arms | I |
| And when thy loss shall be repaid with gains | J |
| Look to my little babes my dear remains | J |
| And if thou love thyself or loved'st me | D |
| These O protect from stepdame's injury | D |
| And if chance to thine eyes shall bring this verse | K |
| With some sad sighs honor my absent hearse | K |
| And kiss this paper for thy dear love's sake | L |
| Who with salt tears this last farewell did take | L |
Anne Bradstreet
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