The World-child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDEFGFGHI JKJKLMLMNONOPP| At times I am the mother of the world | A |
| And mine seem all its sorrows and its fears | B |
| That rose which in each mother heart is curled | A |
| The rose of pity opens with my tears | C |
| And waking in the night I lie and hark | D |
| To the lone sobbing and the wild alarms | E |
| Of my World child a wailing in the dark | D |
| The child I fain would shelter in my arms | E |
| I call to it as from another room | F |
| A mother calls what time she cannot go | G |
| 'Sleep well dear world Love hides behind this gloom | F |
| There is no need for wakefulness or woe | G |
| The long long night is almost past and gone | H |
| The day is near ' And yet the world weeps on | I |
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| Again I follow it throughout the day | J |
| With anxious eyes I see it trip and fall | K |
| And hurt itself in many a foolish way | J |
| Childlike unheeding warning word or call | K |
| I see it grasp and grasping break the toys | L |
| It cried to own then toss them on the floor | M |
| And breathless hurry after fancied joys | L |
| That cease to please when added to its store | M |
| I see the lacerations on its hands | N |
| Made by forbidden tools but when it weeps | O |
| I also weep as one who understands | N |
| And having been a child the memory keeps | O |
| Ah my poor world however wrong thy part | P |
| Still is there pity in my mother heart | P |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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