Nameless Pain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ| I should be happy with my lot | A |
| A wife and mother is it not | A |
| Enough for me to be content | B |
| What other blessing could be sent | B |
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| A quiet house and homely ways | C |
| That make each day like other days | C |
| I only see Time's shadow now | D |
| Darken the hair on baby's brow | D |
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| No world's work ever comes to me | E |
| No beggar brings his misery | E |
| I have no power no healing art | F |
| With bruised soul or broken heart | F |
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| I read the poets of the age | G |
| 'Tis lotus eating in a cage | G |
| I study Art but Art is dead | H |
| To one who clamors to be fed | H |
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| With milk from Nature's rugged breast | I |
| Who longs for Labor's lusty rest | I |
| O foolish wish I still should pine | J |
| If any other lot were mine | J |
Elizabeth Stoddard
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