One Morn I Left Him In His Bed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC AAA DDD EEE FFF GGG HHH| One morn I left him in his bed | A |
| A moment after some one said | A |
| Your child is dying he is dead | A |
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| We made him ready for his rest | B |
| Flowers in his hair and on his breast | B |
| His little hands together prest | B |
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| We sailed by night across the sea | C |
| So floating from the world were we | C |
| Apart from sympathy we Three | C |
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| The wild sea moaned the black clouds spread | A |
| Moving shadows on its bed | A |
| But one of us lay midship dead | A |
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| I saw his coffin sliding down | D |
| The yellow sand in yonder town | D |
| Where I put on my sorrow's crown | D |
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| And we returned in this drear place | E |
| Never to see him face to face | E |
| I thrust aside the living race | E |
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| Mothers who mourn with me to day | F |
| Oh understand me when I say | F |
| I cannot weep I cannot pray | F |
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| I gaze upon a hidden store | G |
| His books his toys the clothes he wore | G |
| And cry Once more to me once more | G |
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| Then take from me this simple verse | H |
| That you may know what I rehearse | H |
| A grief your and my Universe | H |
Elizabeth Stoddard
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