Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDEDE FGGHHIFIF JKKGGLJLMJNever again | A |
No child shall stir the inmost heart of her | B |
And teach her heaven by that first faint stir | B |
No little lips shall lie against her breast | C |
Save the cold lips that now lie there at rest | C |
No little voice shall rouse her from her sleep | D |
And bid her wake to pain | E |
Her sleep is calm and deep | D |
Call not refrain | E |
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Close in her arm | F |
As though even death drew back before the face | G |
Of Motherhood in this white stilly place | G |
The gathered bud lies waxen white and cold | H |
As ever a flower your winter gardens hold | H |
She bore the pain she never wore the crown | I |
She worked the bitter charm | F |
But all she won thereby is here laid down | I |
Renounced for good or harm | F |
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Dream Feed your soul | J |
With dreams while we must starve our hearts on clay | K |
Dream of a glorious white winged sun crowned day | K |
When you shall see her once more face to face | G |
Beside Christ's Mother in the blessed place | G |
But while you dream they carry her from here | L |
The black bells toll and toll | J |
Oh God if only she cannot see or hear | L |
Not hear those ghoul like bells that crowd so near | M |
Not see that cold clay hole | J |
E. (edith) Nesbit
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