Sympathy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JKJK ELEL MNMN OPOP| Grief held me silent in my seat | A |
| I neither moved nor smiled | B |
| Joy held her silent at my feet | A |
| My shining lily child | B |
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| She raised her face and looked in mine | C |
| She deemed herself denied | D |
| The door was shut there was no shine | C |
| Poor she was left outside | D |
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| Once twice three times with infant grace | E |
| Her lips my name did mould | F |
| Her face was pulling at my face | E |
| She was but ten months old | F |
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| I saw the sight rebuked my sighs | G |
| It made me think Does God | H |
| Need help from his poor children's eyes | G |
| To ease him of his load | I |
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| Ah if he did how seldom then | J |
| The Father would be glad | K |
| If comfort lay in the eyes of men | J |
| He little comfort had | K |
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| We cry to him in evil case | E |
| When comfort sore we lack | L |
| And when we troubled seek his face | E |
| Consoled he sends us back | L |
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| Nor waits for prayer to rise and climb | M |
| He wakes the sleeping prayer | N |
| He is our father all the time | M |
| And servant everywhere | N |
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| I looked not up foreboding hid | O |
| Kept down my heart the while | P |
| 'Twas he looked up my Father did | O |
| Smile in my infant's smile | P |
George Macdonald
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