The Maid-servant At The Inn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JKJK| It's queer she said I see the light | A |
| As plain as I beheld it then | B |
| All silver like and calm and bright | A |
| We've not had stars like that again | B |
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| And she was such a gentle thing | C |
| To birth a baby in the cold | D |
| The barn was dark and frightening | C |
| This new one's better than the old | D |
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| I mind my eyes were full of tears | E |
| For I was young and quick distressed | F |
| But she was less than me in years | G |
| That held a son against her breast | F |
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| I never saw a sweeter child | H |
| The little one the darling one | I |
| I mind I told her when he smiled | H |
| You'd know he was his mother's son | I |
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| It's queer that I should see them so | J |
| The time they came to Bethlehem | K |
| Was more than thirty years ago | J |
| I've prayed that all is well with them | K |
Dorothy Parker
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