Since Jessie Died Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHAA IIAABB| We understand a lot of things we never did before | A |
| And it seems that to each other Ma and I are meaning more | A |
| I don't know how to say it but since little Jessie died | B |
| We have learned that to be happy we must travel side by side | B |
| You can share your joys and pleasures but you never come to know | C |
| The depth there is in loving till you've got a common woe | C |
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| We're past the hurt of fretting we can talk about it now | D |
| She slipped away so gently and the fever left her brow | D |
| So softly that we didn't know we'd lost her but instead | E |
| We thought her only sleeping as we watched beside her bed | E |
| Then the doctor I remember raised his head as if to say | F |
| What his eyes had told already and Ma fainted dead away | F |
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| Up to then I thought that money was the thing I ought to get | G |
| And I fancied once I had it I should never have to fret | G |
| But I saw that I had wasted precious hours in seeking wealth | H |
| I had made a tidy fortune but I couldn't buy her health | H |
| And I saw this truth much clearer than I'd ever seen before | A |
| That the rich man and the poor man have to let death through the door | A |
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| We're not half so keen for money as one time we used to be | I |
| I am thinking more of mother and she's thinking more of me | I |
| Now we spend more time together and I know we're meaning more | A |
| To each other on life's journey than we ever meant before | A |
| It was hard to understand it Oh the dreary nights we've cried | B |
| But we've found the depth of loving since the day that Jessie died | B |
Edgar Albert Guest
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