Maternity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB DECEFE GDHDID JAKALA| After the months of torpor | A |
| Weakness and ache and strain | B |
| After this day's deep drowning | C |
| In stormy seas of pain | B |
| To feel your hand my baby | D |
| Upon my bosom lain | B |
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| My little one my baby | D |
| What woes your touches quell | E |
| It is the Christ child coming | C |
| To save a soul from hell | E |
| Out in the happy gardens | F |
| You bring me now to dwell | E |
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| My baby O beloved | G |
| Mine only you shall be | D |
| Even as the soul our Lord's is | H |
| Who died upon the tree | D |
| Have I not won you dearest | I |
| By pain as he won me | D |
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| So sweet so soft so little | J |
| Such a wee helpless flower | A |
| How may I shield you dear one | K |
| From the world's ruthless power | A |
| And hold you close and warm here | L |
| As now in your first hour | A |
Harriet Monroe
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