The Crown Of Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDD EFGGDD HHCCDD IIJJDD KLMMDDTHE days the doubts the dreams of pain | A |
Are over not to come again | B |
And from the menace of the night | C |
Has dawned the day star of delight | C |
My baby lies against me pressed | D |
Thus Mother of God are mothers blessed | D |
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His little head upon my arm | E |
His little body soft and warm | F |
His little feet that cannot stand | G |
Held in the heart of this my hand | G |
His little mouth close on my breast | D |
Thus Mary's Son are mothers blessed | D |
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All dreams of deeds all deeds of day | H |
Are very faint and far away | H |
Yet you some day will stand upright | C |
And fight God's foes in manhood's might | C |
You tiny worshipped clasped caressed | D |
Thus Mother of God are mothers blessed | D |
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Whatever grief may come to be | I |
This hour divine goes on for me | I |
All glorious is my little span | J |
Since I like God have made a man | J |
A little image of God's best | D |
Thus Mary's Son are mothers blessed | D |
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Come change come loss come worlds of tears | K |
Come endless chain of empty years | L |
They cannot take away the hour | M |
That gives me You my bird my flower | M |
Thank God for this Leave God the rest | D |
Thus Mother of God are mothers blessed | D |
Edith Nesbit
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