Asking In Vain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEECFAFACDCEEC GHGH| Still his little grave she seeketh | A |
| In her mother sorrow wild | B |
| Hush While in her heart she speaketh | A |
| To the spirit of her child | B |
| Were we not to one another | C |
| Once the sum of all sweet gain | D |
| Say then say unto thy mother | C |
| Shall we ever meet again | E |
| Darling shall we meet again | E |
| Knowing loving one another | C |
| Ah What weary weary sorrows | F |
| Have I known through loss of thee | A |
| And what comfortless to morrows | F |
| Wait me in this misery | A |
| Were we not to one another | C |
| Once the sum of all sweet gain | D |
| Say then say unto thy mother | C |
| Shall we ever meet again | E |
| Darling shall we meet again | E |
| Knowing loving one another | C |
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| But the wind alone is heard | G |
| Sighing in reply | H |
| Where the long grave grass is stirred | G |
| As it floweth by | H |
Charles Harpur
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