At The Door Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG DHDH IJIJ| I thought myself indeed secure | A |
| So fast the door so firm the lock | B |
| But lo he toddling comes to lure | A |
| My parent ear with timorous knock | B |
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| My heart were stone could it withstand | C |
| The sweetness of my baby's plea | D |
| That timorous baby knocking and | E |
| Please let me in it's only me | D |
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| I threw aside the unfinished book | F |
| Regardless of its tempting charms | G |
| And opening wide the door I took | F |
| My laughing darling in my arms | G |
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| Who knows but in Eternity | D |
| I like a truant child shall wait | H |
| The glories of a life to be | D |
| Beyond the Heavenly Father's gate | H |
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| And will that Heavenly Father heed | I |
| The truant's supplicating cry | J |
| As at the outer door I plead | I |
| 'T is I O Father only I | J |
Eugene Field
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