David-s Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEFEDEGGHH| IN face of a great sorrow like to death | A |
| How do we wrestle night and day with tears | B |
| How do we fast and pray how small appears | C |
| The outside world while hanging on some breath | A |
| Of fragile hope the chamber where we lie | D |
| Includes all space But if sudden at last | E |
| The blow falls or by incredulity | F |
| Fond led we never having one thought cast | E |
| Towards years where 'the child' was not see it die | D |
| And with it all our future all our past | E |
| We just look round us with a dull surprise | G |
| For lesser pangs we had filled earth with cries | G |
| Of wild and angry grief that would be heard | H |
| But when the heart is broken not a word | H |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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