Mother's Loss Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCADCD CEFEAGHG ICICAJKJ CLCLAMNM OHOHAPQP KNCR| If I could clasp my little babe | A |
| Upon my breast to night | B |
| I would not mind the blowing wind | C |
| That shrieketh in affright | C |
| Oh my lost babe my little babe | A |
| My babe with dreamful eyes | D |
| Thy bed is cold and night wind bold | C |
| Shrieks woeful lullabies | D |
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| My breast is softer than the sod | C |
| This room with lighter hearth | E |
| Is better place for thy sweet face | F |
| Than frozen mother eatrth | E |
| Oh my babe oh my lost babe | A |
| Oh babe with waxen hands | G |
| I want thee so I need thee so | H |
| Come from thy mystic lands | G |
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| No love that like a mother's fills | I |
| Each corner of the heart | C |
| No loss like hers that rends and chills | I |
| And tears the soul apart | C |
| Oh babe my babe my helpless babe | A |
| I miss thy little form | J |
| Would I might creep where thou dost sleep | K |
| And clasp thee through the storm | J |
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| I hold thy pillow to my breast | C |
| To bring a vague relief | L |
| I sing the songs that soothed thy rest | C |
| Ah me no cheating grief | L |
| My breathing babe my sobbing babe | A |
| I miss thy plaintive moan | M |
| I cannot hear thou art not near | N |
| My little one my own | M |
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| Thy father sleeps He mourns thy loss | O |
| But little fathers know | H |
| The pain that makes a mother toss | O |
| Through sleepless nights of woe | H |
| My clinging babe my nursing babe | A |
| What knows thy father man | P |
| How my breasts miss thy lips' soft kiss | Q |
| None but a mother can | P |
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| Worn out I sleep I wake I weep | K |
| I sleep hush hush my dear | N |
| Sweet lamb fear not Oh God I thought | C |
| I thought my babe was here | R |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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