In Memory Of My Dear Grandchild Anne Bradstreet, Who Deceased June 20, 1699, Being Three Years And S Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGHIIJJKK| With troubled heart and trembling hand I write | A |
| The heavens have changed to sorrow my delight | A |
| How oft with dissappointment have I met | B |
| When I on fading things my hopes have set | B |
| Experience might 'fore this have made me wise | C |
| To value things according to their price | D |
| Was ever stable joy yet found below | E |
| Or perfect bliss without mixture of woe | E |
| I knew she was but as a withering flower | F |
| That's here today perhaps gone in an hour | F |
| Like as a bubble or the brittle glass | G |
| Or like a shadow turning as it was | H |
| More fool then I to look on that was lent | I |
| As if mine own when thus impermanent | I |
| Farewell dear child thou ne'er shalt come to me | J |
| But yet a while and I shall go to thee | J |
| Meantime my throbbing heart's cheered up with this | K |
| Thou with thy Savior art in endless bliss | K |
Anne Bradstreet
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