When Baby Souls Sail Out Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACDED FGFHIJKJ IDIDHLDL IAIAAAMA NHNHIOOO| When from our mortal vision | A |
| Grown men and women go | B |
| To sail strange fields Elysian | A |
| And know what spirits know | A |
| I think of them as tourists | C |
| In some sun gilded clime | D |
| 'Mong happy sights and dear delights | E |
| We all shall find in time | D |
| - | |
| But when a child goes yonder | F |
| And leaves its mother here | G |
| Its little feet must wander | F |
| It seems to me in fear | H |
| What paths of Eden beauty | I |
| What scenes of peace and rest | J |
| Can bring content to one who went | K |
| Forth from a mother's breast | J |
| - | |
| In palace gardens lonely | I |
| A little child will roam | D |
| And weep for pleasures only | I |
| Found in its humble home | D |
| It is not won by splendour | H |
| Nor bought by costly toys | L |
| To hide from harm on mother's arm | D |
| Makes all its sum of joys | L |
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| It must be when the baby | I |
| Goes journeying off alone | A |
| Some angel Mary may be | I |
| Adopts it for her own | A |
| Yet when a child is taken | A |
| Whose mother stays below | A |
| With weeping eyes through Paradise | M |
| I seem to see it go | A |
| - | |
| With troops of angels trying | N |
| To drive away its fear | H |
| I seem to hear it crying | N |
| I want my mamma here | H |
| I do not court the fancy | I |
| It is not based on doubt | O |
| It is a thought that comes unsought | O |
| When baby souls sail out | O |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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