Barta Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDAEAFGHGIAEA JKLKMAEA NBOBPAEA| Wide solemn eyes that question me | A |
| Wee hand that pats my head | B |
| Where only two have stroked before | C |
| And both of them are dead | B |
| Ah poo ah Daddy mine she says | D |
| With wondrous sympathy | A |
| Oh baby girl you don t know how | E |
| You break the heart in me | A |
| Let friends and kinsfolk work their worst | F |
| And the world say what it will | G |
| Your baby arms go round my neck | H |
| I m your own Daddy still | G |
| And you kiss me and I kiss you | I |
| Fresh kisses frank and free | A |
| Ah baby girl you don t know how | E |
| You break the heart in me | A |
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| I dreamed when I was good that when | J |
| The snow showed in my hair | K |
| A household angel in her teens | L |
| Would flit about my chair | K |
| To comfort me as I grew old | M |
| But that shall never be | A |
| Ah baby girl you don t know how | E |
| You break the heart in me | A |
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| But one shall love me while I live | N |
| And soothe my troubled head | B |
| And never hear an unkind word | O |
| Of me when I am dead | B |
| Her eyes shall light to hear my name | P |
| Howe er disgraced it be | A |
| Ah baby girl you don t know how | E |
| You help the heart in me | A |
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