Newborn Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCB DEDEDE A FGGFFGGF HIHJHJ| I | A |
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| To day Death seems to me an infant child | B |
| Which her worn mother Life upon my knee | C |
| Has set to grow my friend and play with me | C |
| If haply so my heart might be beguil'd | B |
| To find no terrors in a face so mild | B |
| If haply so my weary heart might be | C |
| Unto the newborn milky eyes of thee | C |
| O Death before resentment reconcil'd | B |
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| How long O Death And shall thy feet depart | D |
| Still a young child's with mine or wilt thou stand | E |
| Fullgrown the helpful daughter of my heart | D |
| What time with thee indeed I reach the strand | E |
| Of the pale wave which knows thee what thou art | D |
| And drink it in the hollow of thy hand | E |
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| II | A |
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| And thou O Life the lady of all bliss | F |
| With whom when our first heart beat full and fast | G |
| I wandered till the haunts of men were pass'd | G |
| And in fair places found all bowers amiss | F |
| Till only woods and waves might hear our kiss | F |
| While to the winds all thought of Death we cast | G |
| Ah Life and must I have from thee at last | G |
| No smile to greet me and no babe but this | F |
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| Lo Love the child once ours and Song whose hair | H |
| Blew like a flame and blossomed like a wreath | I |
| And Art whose eyes were worlds by God found fair | H |
| These o'er the book of Nature mixed their breath | J |
| With neck twined arms as oft we watched them there | H |
| And did these die that thou mightst bear me Death | J |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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