The Dead Babe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DEFBGH AAIJJI KKLMML MMMNNM| Last night as my dear babe lay dead | A |
| In agony I knelt and said | A |
| God what have I done | B |
| Or in what wise offended Thee | C |
| That Thou should'st take away from me | C |
| My little son | B |
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| Upon the thousand useless lives | D |
| Upon the guilt that vaunting thrives | E |
| Thy wrath were better spent | F |
| Why should'st Thou take my little son | B |
| Why should'st Thou vent Thy wrath upon | G |
| This innocent | H |
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| Last night as my dear babe lay dead | A |
| Before mine eyes the vision spread | A |
| Of things that might have been | I |
| Licentious riot cruel strife | J |
| Forgotten prayers a wasted life | J |
| Dark red with sin | I |
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| Then with sweet music in the air | K |
| I saw another vision there | K |
| A Shepherd in whose keep | L |
| A little lamb my little child | M |
| Of worldly wisdom undefiled | M |
| Lay fast asleep | L |
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| Last night as my dear babe lay dead | M |
| In those two messages I read | M |
| A wisdom manifest | M |
| And though my arms be childless now | N |
| I am content to Him I bow | N |
| Who knoweth best | M |
Eugene Field
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