The Drunkard's Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJBHB KLMLNOPO AQKQHEQE KDRDSTUT| He stood beside his dying child | A |
| With a dim and bloodshot eye | B |
| They'd won him from the haunts of vice | C |
| To see his first born die | B |
| He came with a slow and staggering tread | D |
| A vague unmeaning stare | E |
| And reeling clasped the clammy hand | F |
| So deathly pale and fair | E |
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| In a dark and gloomy chamber | G |
| Life ebbing fast away | H |
| On a coarse and wretched pallet | I |
| The dying sufferer lay | H |
| A smile of recognition | J |
| Lit up the glazing eye | B |
| I'm very glad it seemed to say | H |
| You've come to see me die | B |
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| That smile reached to his callous heart | K |
| It sealed fountains stirred | L |
| He tried to speak but on his lips | M |
| Faltered and died each word | L |
| And burning tears like rain | N |
| Poured down his bloated face | O |
| Where guilt remorse and shame | P |
| Had scathed and left their trace | O |
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| My father said the dying child | A |
| His voice was faint and low | Q |
| Oh clasp me closely to your heart | K |
| And kiss me ere I go | Q |
| Bright angels beckon me away | H |
| To the holy city fair | E |
| Oh tell me Father ere I go | Q |
| Say will you meet me there | E |
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| He clasped him to his throbbing heart | K |
| I will I will he said | D |
| His pleading ceased the father held | R |
| His first born and his dead | D |
| The marble brow with golden curls | S |
| Lay lifeless on his breast | T |
| Like sunbeams on the distant clouds | U |
| Which line the gorgeous west | T |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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