Deserted Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHHG FIFIJKJK LMLMNONO PBPBQDQD RCRCFLFL LSLTUMUM| No mother I am not sad | A |
| Why think me sad I was always still | B |
| You remember even when my heart was most glad | A |
| And you used to let me dream at my will | B |
| And now I like better to watch the sea | C |
| And the calm sad sky than to laugh with the rest | D |
| You know they are full of chatter and glee | C |
| And I like the quietness best | D |
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| Nay mother you look so grave | E |
| I know what you're thinking and will not say | F |
| But you need not fear I am growing brave | E |
| Now that the pain is passing away | F |
| And I never weep for him now when alone | G |
| For perhaps it was better who can tell | H |
| That it ended so I shall soon be well | H |
| Now that the hardest is known | G |
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| I am so much stronger to day | F |
| I can look at all past and think how it grew | I |
| And how by degrees it faded away | F |
| That light of my life Ah when I first knew | I |
| I had only been a plaything to him | J |
| Through all my loving it seemed so strange | K |
| If the high noontide at once grew night dim | J |
| It would not be such a change | K |
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| I wonder I did not die | L |
| Mother I'll own it you now I am strong | M |
| I used to wake in the night and lie | L |
| Wishing and wishing it might not be long | M |
| Oh it was wicked and you all so kind | N |
| How could I wish to bring you a grief | O |
| But too much unhappiness makes one blind | N |
| To all but one's own relief | O |
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| I am not so wicked now | P |
| You need not fear I am hoping that still | B |
| I am learning to lean on God and I bow | P |
| Yes I think I bow my heart to His will | B |
| I found it a long hard struggle to make | Q |
| To clasp my sorrow and say It is best | D |
| But believe it you need not fear for my sake | Q |
| Yes mother I am at rest | D |
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| Yet listen if I should die soon | R |
| And I know what they say though you hide it from me | C |
| Mother you'll grant me my last asked boon | R |
| That you'll try not to think it his fault and if he | C |
| Mother if he should seek you some day | F |
| You will not make him a hard reply | L |
| But tell him before I passed away | F |
| I sent him kind good bye | L |
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| Mother kiss me do not cry | L |
| I could not keep from speaking of this | S |
| It is nothing to say If I should die | L |
| It cannot bring death more near than it is | T |
| And I am much stronger You shall not weep | U |
| Who is it tells me that weeping is wrong | M |
| But let me lean on your lap and sleep | U |
| I lay waking last night too long | M |
Augusta Davies Webster
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