Nurse Green Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB C C DED FAF FAFA FAFA GAGA FHF| 'Your prayers you have said and you've wished good night | A |
| What cause is there yet keeps my darling awake | B |
| This throb in your bosom proclaims some affright | A |
| Disturbs your composure Can innocence quake | B |
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| 'Why thus do you cling to my neck and enfold me | C |
| What fear unimparted your quiet devours ' | - |
| 'O mother there's reason for Susan has told me | C |
| A dead body lies in the room next to ours ' | - |
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| 'I know it and but for forgetfulness dear | D |
| I meant you the coffin this day should have seen | E |
| And read the inscription and told me the year | D |
| And day of the death of your poor old Nurse Green ' | - |
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| 'O not for the wealth of the world would I enter | F |
| A chamber wherein a dead body lay hid | A |
| Lest somebody bolder than I am should venture | F |
| To go near the coffin and lift up the lid ' | - |
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| 'And should they do so and the coffin uncover | F |
| The corpse underneath it would be no ill sight | A |
| This frame when its animal functions are over | F |
| Has nothing of horror the living to fright | A |
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| To start at the dead is preposterous error | F |
| To shrink from a foe that can never contest | A |
| Shall that which is motionless move thee to terror | F |
| Or thou become restless 'cause they are at rest | A |
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| To think harm of her our good feelings forbid us | G |
| By whom when a babe you were dandled and fed | A |
| Who living so many good offices did us | G |
| I ne'er can persuade me would hurt us when dead | A |
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| But if no endeavour your terrors can smother | F |
| If vainly against apprehension you strive | H |
| Come bury your fears in the arms of your mother | F |
| My darling cling close to me I am alive ' | - |
Charles Lamb
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