A Dead Baby Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFGFHH HHBHII BCEFHH IEBEEE| LITTLE soul for such brief space that entered | A |
| In this little body straight and chilly | B |
| Little life that fluttered and departed | C |
| Like a moth from an unopened lily | B |
| Little being without name or nation | D |
| Where is now thy place among creation | D |
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| Little dark lashed eyes unclos d never | E |
| Little mouth by earthly food ne'er tainted | F |
| Little breast that just once heaved and settled | G |
| In eternal slumber white and sainted | F |
| Child shall I in future children's faces | H |
| See some pretty look that thine retraces | H |
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| Is this thrill that strikes across my heart strings | H |
| And in dew beneath my eyelid gathers | H |
| Token of the bliss thou mightst have brought me | B |
| Dawning of the love they call a father's | H |
| Do I hear through this still room a sighing | I |
| Like thy spirit to me its author crying | I |
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| Whence didst come and whither take thy journey | B |
| Little soul of me and mine created | C |
| Must thou lose us and we thee forever | E |
| O strange life by minutes only dated | F |
| Or new flesh assuming just to prove us | H |
| In some other babe return and love us | H |
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| Idle questions all yet our beginning | I |
| Like our ending rests with the Life sender | E |
| With whom naught is lost and naught spent vainly | B |
| Unto Him this little one I render | E |
| Hide the face the tiny coffin cover | E |
| So our first dream our first hope is over | E |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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