A Roman Doll Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDBDBEE FGHF IJIJBGHBB FGHF| In a Museum | A |
| How an image of paint and wood | B |
| Leaped to her life with a love's control | C |
| Struck the chords of her motherhood | B |
| Passionate little mother soul | C |
| Fair to her sight were the stolid eyes | D |
| Dear to her toil the robes empearled | B |
| She crooned it the ancient lullabies | D |
| She gathered it close from the outer world | B |
| They watched together as Nero's pyres | E |
| Fed the haze of a hundred fires | E |
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| Me in her fresh young arms she bore | F |
| See I am small | G |
| Only a doll | H |
| But I keep her kiss forevermore | F |
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| Long and lonely the toy has lain | I |
| One by one into time's abyss | J |
| Years have dropped as the drops of rain | I |
| Yet the cycles have left us this | J |
| O red lipped mother O mother sweet | B |
| Today a sister has heard you call | G |
| I saw her weep o'er the crumbling doll | H |
| She knew she knew You had lived and smiled | B |
| You had loved your dream little Roman child | B |
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| Me in her fresh young arms she bore | F |
| See I am small | G |
| Only a doll | H |
| But I keep her kiss forevermore | F |
Eleanor Agnes Lee
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