At Last Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIJI KFLF LMNM OFPF QRSR TUCU| O mother open the window wide | A |
| And let the daylight in | B |
| The hills grow darker to my sight | C |
| And thoughts begin to swim | D |
| - | |
| And mother dear take my young son | E |
| Since I was born of thee | F |
| And care for all his little ways | G |
| And nurse him on thy knee | F |
| - | |
| And mother wash my pale pale hands | H |
| And then bind up my feet | I |
| My body may no longer rest | J |
| Out of its winding sheet | I |
| - | |
| And mother dear take a sapling twig | K |
| And green grass newly mown | F |
| And lay them on my empty bed | L |
| That my sorrow be not known | F |
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| And mother find three berries red | L |
| And pluck them from the stalk | M |
| And burn them at the first cockcrow | N |
| That my spirit may not walk | M |
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| And mother dear break a willow wand | O |
| And if the sap be even | F |
| Then save it for sweet Robert s sake | P |
| And he ll know my soul s in heaven | F |
| - | |
| And mother when the big tears fall | Q |
| And fall God knows they may | R |
| Tell him I died of my great love | S |
| And my dying heart was gay | R |
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| And mother dear when the sun has set | T |
| And the pale kirk grass waves | U |
| Then carry me through the dim twilight | C |
| And hide me among the graves | U |
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal
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