The Childless Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDCD DDDDDDED FFGGDHIH AAJJDKJK AADDDDJD| O Mother of that heap of clay so passive on your breast | A |
| Now do you stare at death woman who yesterday were blest | A |
| Now do you long to fare afar and guide him on the way | B |
| Where he must wander all alone his little feet astray | B |
| But I now but I now | C |
| Sons of me seven and seven | D |
| The high God seals upon the brow | C |
| And summons from his heaven | D |
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| Blest as a bride were you woman that time of years agone | D |
| When love giver of life came close and led you to his throne | D |
| And blest were you have you forgot when through the moons of pain | D |
| The life love given tugged at your heart and bound you with its chain | D |
| But I now but I now | D |
| Seared by the high God's scorn | D |
| Lives that will never come to birth | E |
| Body of me has borne | D |
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| And when the hour was come woman your dark and perilous hour | F |
| When the twin spirits Death and Life clutched you with jealous power | F |
| Rent by their war you lay half lost until a baby's cry | G |
| Summoned you forth past world on world to sit with God on high | G |
| But I now but I now | D |
| Never my baby's voice | H |
| Has called me forth from vales of woe | I |
| With seraphs to rejoice | H |
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| You in your arms have clasped him woman and fed him at your breast | A |
| You sang him little songs at night and lulled him to his rest | A |
| The ages gone were yours then and yours the years to be | J |
| You gave him of your hope and saw the light no eye shall see | J |
| But I now but I now | D |
| Sons of me born in dream | K |
| Cry out for robes of flesh I see | J |
| Their wistful eyes agleam | K |
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| O mother of that heap of clay so passive on your breast | A |
| Now do you stare at death woman nay peace for you are blest | A |
| Blest are you in your joy woman blest are you in your pain | D |
| Once more he calls you past the worlds to sit with God again | D |
| But I now but I now | D |
| Sons of me nine and nine | D |
| That looked on life and death with me | J |
| Are neither God s nor mine | D |
Harriet Monroe
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