The Child Dying Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD EEFEEF GGHIIH JJKHHK LLMJJM| Unfriendly friendly universe | A |
| I pack your stars into my purse | A |
| And bid you so farewell | B |
| That I can leave you quite go out | C |
| Go out go out beyond all doubt | C |
| My father says is the miracle | D |
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| You are so great and I so small | E |
| I am nothing you are all | E |
| Being nothing I can take this way | F |
| Oh I need neither rise nor fall | E |
| For when I do not move at all | E |
| I shall be out of all your day | F |
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| It's said some memory will remain | G |
| In the other place grass in the rain | G |
| Light on the land sun on the sea | H |
| A flitting grace a phantom face | I |
| But the world is out There is not place | I |
| Where it and its ghost can ever be | H |
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| Father father I dread this air | J |
| Blown from the far side of despair | J |
| The cold cold corner What house what hold | K |
| What hand is there I look and see | H |
| Nothing filled eternity | H |
| And the great round world grows weak and old | K |
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| Hold my hand oh hold it fast | L |
| I am changing until at last | L |
| My hand in yours no more will change | M |
| Though yours change on You here I there | J |
| So hand in hand twin leafed despair | J |
| I did not know death was so strange | M |
Edwin Muir
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