Remembering Golden Bells Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D B E F G H I J K L C M N| Ruined and ill a man of two score | A |
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| Pretty and guileless a girl of three | B |
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| Not a boy but still better than nothing | C |
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| To soothe one s feeling from time to time a kiss | D |
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| There came a day they suddenly took her from me | B |
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| Her soul s shadow wandered I know not where | E |
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| And when I remember how just at the time she died | F |
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| She lisped strange sounds beginning to learn to talk | G |
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| Then I know that the ties of flesh and blood | H |
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| Only bind us to a load of grief and sorrow | I |
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| At last by thinking of the time before she was born | J |
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| By thought and reason I drove the pain away | K |
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| Since my heart forgot her many days have passed | L |
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| And three times winter has changed to spring | C |
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| This morning for a little the old grief came back | M |
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| Because in the road I met her foster nurse | N |
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