The Wife's Watch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGHGIJKJ LIMIDNON IPPPIQRQ SGFGTSUS VWXWGYZY OPA2PB2C2ED2| Sleep on my darling sleep on | A |
| I am keeping watch by your side | B |
| I have drawn in the curtains close | C |
| And banished the world outside | B |
| Rest as the reaper may rest | D |
| When the harvest work is done | E |
| Rest as the soldier may rest | D |
| When the victor's work is won | E |
| - | |
| You smile in your happy sleep | F |
| Are the children with you now | G |
| Sweet baby Willie so early called | H |
| And Nellie with thoughtful brow | G |
| And May our loving daughter | I |
| Ah the skies grew dark my love | J |
| When the sunshine of her presence | K |
| Vanished to Heaven above | J |
| - | |
| While you're resting my darling | L |
| I dream of the shadowy hour | I |
| When one of us looks the last | M |
| On the light of its household bower | I |
| Then a sad sigh heaves my breast | D |
| And tears from my eyelids burst | N |
| As I ask of the future dim | O |
| Which shall be summoned first | N |
| - | |
| Sometimes I pray in terror | I |
| That you may be first to go | P |
| Never again to sorrow | P |
| Or to feel one throb of woe | P |
| Beyond the mists of the river | I |
| Where mystic shadows weave | Q |
| I have no fears my beloved | R |
| In One we both believe | Q |
| - | |
| But I oh I so lonely | S |
| Could I look as I look now | G |
| If this was thy last long sleep | F |
| The ice of death on thy brow | G |
| In sight of the holy angels | T |
| I offer my earnest plea | S |
| I cry to my God and pray | U |
| If one goes first take me | S |
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| Our lives have been happy dear | V |
| I fancy the tears we shed | W |
| By our lost children's coffins | X |
| On faces white and dead | W |
| Are counted as dew drops now | G |
| On the flowers early sown | Y |
| In the gardens of Paradise | Z |
| The Lord's and still our own | Y |
| - | |
| So we'll leave the future dim | O |
| Take the sunshine as we go | P |
| And when we come to the brink | A2 |
| Where black waves ebb and flow | P |
| We'll trust the voice which summons | B2 |
| The love that has ever kept | C2 |
| To fold in his arms one taken | E |
| To lead by His hand one left | D2 |
Harriet Annie Wilkins
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