Willie In Heaven: Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKJL MNMN OPOP QAQA| They tell me in a sunny land | A |
| Our Willie is at play | B |
| And with him is a happy band | A |
| Of children good and gay | B |
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| They say their shining robes of white | C |
| Are free from spot or stain | D |
| That there where it is never night | C |
| They feel no grief or pain | D |
| - | |
| But Willie shunned the stranger's face | E |
| When he was with us here | F |
| And in that new though lovely place | E |
| He will be sad I fear | G |
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| He'll miss me though the fields are fair | H |
| His bright eyes will grow dim | I |
| He has no little sister there | H |
| O let me go to him | I |
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| Our Willie is not sad my child | J |
| For in that heavenly home | K |
| There dwells the blessed Saviour mild | J |
| Who bids the children come | L |
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| He loves them with a purer love | M |
| A holier than ours | N |
| And leads them in the fields above | M |
| Where spring undying flowers | N |
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| If no ungentle words you speak | O |
| No wicked actions do | P |
| And if with every day you seek | O |
| To be more kind and true | P |
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| Then by our darling Willie's side | Q |
| And joined in heart and hand | A |
| Forevermore shall you abide | Q |
| Among the angel band | A |
H. P. Nichols
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