Best Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAB CCBCB DDBEB FGBGB HIBJB KKBKB| Mother I see you with your nursery light | A |
| Leading your babies all in white | A |
| To their sweet rest | B |
| Christ the Good Shepherd carries mine tonight | A |
| And that is best | B |
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| I cannot help tears when I see them twine | C |
| Their fingers in yours and their bright curls shine | C |
| On your warm breast | B |
| But the Saviour's is purer than yours or mine | C |
| He can love best | B |
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| You tremble each hour because your arms | D |
| Are weak your heart is wrung with alarms | D |
| And sore opprest | B |
| My darlings are safe out of reach of harm | E |
| And that is best | B |
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| You know over yours may hang even now | F |
| Pain and disease whose fulfilling slow | G |
| Naught can arrest | B |
| Mine in God's gardens run to and fro | G |
| And that is best | B |
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| You know that of yours your feeblest one | H |
| And dearest may live long years alone | I |
| Unloved unblest | B |
| Mine entered spotless on eternal years | J |
| Oh how much the best | B |
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| But grief is selfish I cannot see | K |
| Always why I should stricken be | K |
| More than the rest | B |
| But I know that as well as for them for me | K |
| God did the best | B |
Helen Hunt Jackson
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