A Woman In Hospital Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEADDAA AFGGHHCCII JJBBAK A LLMMBNBNA AOEPPQQQ RS TUSSUVVWWBBU UXYYUUZZIIUUDUUUUAAD AAA2A2

I know it all I knowA
For I am God I am Jehovah HeB
Who made you what you are and I can seeB
The tears that wet your pillow night by nightC
When nurse has lowered that too brilliant lightC
When the talk ceases and the ward grows stillD
And you have doffed your willD
I know the anguish and the helplessnessE
I know the fears that toss you to and froA
And how you wrestle wearifulD
With hosts of little strings that pullD
About your heart and tear it soA
I knowA
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Lord do You knowA
I had no time to put clean curtains upF
No time to finish darning all the socksG
Nor sew clean frilling in the children's frocksG
And do You know about my Baby's coldH
And how things are with my sweet three year oldH
Will Jane remember rightC
Their cough mixture at nightC
And will she ever thinkI
To brush the kitchen flues or scrub the sinkI
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And then there's John Poor tired lonely JohnJ
No one will run to put his slippers onJ
And not a soul but meB
Knows just exactly how he likes his teaB
It rends my heart to think I cannot goA
And minister to himK
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I know I knowA
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Then there are other thingsL
Dear Lord more little stringsL
That pull my heart Now Baby feels her feetM
She loves to run outside into the streetM
And Jane's hands are so full she'll never seeB
And I'm quite sure the clean clothes won't be airedN
At least not properlyB
And oh I can't I really can't be sparedN
My little house calls soA
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I knowA
And I am waiting here to help and blessO
Lay down your head Lay down your hope lessnessE
And let Me speakP
You are so weary child you are so weakP
But let us reason outQ
The darkness and the doubtQ
This torturing fear that tosses you aboutQ
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I hold the universe I count the starsR
And out of shortened lives I build the agesS
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But Lord while such high things Thy thought engagesT
I fear forgive me lestU
Amid those limitless eternal spacesS
Thou shouldest in the high and heavenly placesS
Pass over my affairs as things of noughtU
There are so many houses just like mineV
And I so earth bound and Thyself DivineV
It seems impossible that Thou shouldst careW
Just what my babies wearW
And what John gets to eat and can it beB
A circumstance of great concern to TheeB
Whether I live or dieU
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Have you forgotten then My child that IU
The Infinite the Limitless laid downX
The method of existence that I knewY
And took on Me a nature just like youY
I laboured day by dayU
In the same dogged wayU
That you have tackled household tasks And thenZ
Remember child remember once againZ
Your own beloveds did you really thinkI
Those days you toiled to get their meat and drinkI
And made their clothes and tried to under standU
Their little ailments did you think your handU
Your feeble hand was keeping them from illD
I gave them life and life is more than meatU
Those little limbs so comely and so sweetU
You can make raiment for them and are gladU
But can you addU
One cubit to their stature Yet they growA
Oh child hands off Hands off And leave them soA
I guarded hitherto I guard them stillD
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I have let go at last I have let goA
And oh the rest it is dear God to knowA
My dear ones are so safe for Thou wilt keepA2
Hands off at last Now I can go to sleepA2

Fay Inchfawn



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