My Christian Name Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDA EA AFGFHAIA JKLKMANA OPQPRALA STUTVAIA| MY Christian name my Christian name | A |
| I never hear it now | B |
| None have the right to utter it | C |
| 'T is lost I scare know how | B |
| My worldly name the world speaks loud | D |
| Thank God for well earned fame | A |
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| But silence sits at my cold hearth | E |
| I have no household name | A |
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| My Christian name my Christian name | A |
| It has an uncouth sound | F |
| My mother chose it out of those | G |
| In Bible pages found | F |
| Mother whose accents made half sweet | H |
| What else I held in shame | A |
| Dost thou remember up in heaven | I |
| My poor lost Christian name | A |
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| Brothers and sisters mockers oft | J |
| Of the quaint name I bore | K |
| Would I could leap back years to hear | L |
| Ye shout it out once more | K |
| One speaks it still in written lines | M |
| The last fraternal claim | A |
| But the wide seas between us drown | N |
| Its sound my Christian name | A |
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| I had a long dream once Her voice | O |
| Might breathe the homely word | P |
| And make it music as love makes | Q |
| Any name said or heard | P |
| O dumb dumb lips O silent heart | R |
| Though it is no ones' blame | A |
| Now while I live I'll never hear | L |
| Her speak my Christian name | A |
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| God send her bliss and send me rest | S |
| If her white footsteps calm | T |
| Should track my bleeding feet God make | U |
| To them each blood drop balm | T |
| Peace peace O mother put thou forth | V |
| Thine elder holier claim | A |
| And the first word I hear in heaven | I |
| May be my Christian name | A |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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