Lament Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACDCDCEFEFEFGFGF HIHJH KLKLKMNMNM| PEACE your little child is dead | A |
| Peace I cannot weep with you | B |
| I have no more tears to shed | A |
| I have mourned my baby too | B |
| I that ne'er was wooed or wed | A |
| Love has looked within your eyes | C |
| Love has filled your hungry heart | D |
| You have borne the babe your prize | C |
| You have blossomed done your part | D |
| Though the flower faded lies | C |
| But to me was love denied | E |
| God had said it might not be | F |
| Still my hungry hopes abide | E |
| All the motherhood in me | F |
| Aches and starves unsatisfied | E |
| How my soul has yearned for thee | F |
| Sweet sweet unborn child of mine | G |
| How thy life would tenderly | F |
| Round thy mother's life entwine | G |
| Hope of hopes that may not be | F |
| How thy hands would pluck my breast | H |
| I have felt them o'er and o'er | I |
| And thy soft sweet skin caressed | H |
| Baby mine I never bore | J |
| Did I dream so dreams are best | H |
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| You have nothing now to fear | K |
| Mother you have fondled him | L |
| Held his pretty face so near | K |
| Laid your lips to each soft limb | L |
| He is dead but he was dear | K |
| You have something you may mourn | M |
| Some sweet memory to kiss | N |
| I am lonelier more forlorn | M |
| God has left me only this | N |
| My sweet babe that was not born | M |
Arthur Henry Adams
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