Child Made Happy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEE FFCC GGHH IIJJ KKLM CCNN OOPP| In a great city hospital | A |
| There lay poor Mary Crosby small | B |
| She had no friends her heart to cheer | C |
| So time with her passed sad and drear | C |
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| She sought for ease but all in vain | D |
| Month after month she passed in pain | D |
| She had no relative nor friend | E |
| Who aid or comfort could her lend | E |
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| A surgeon saw her cheerless state | F |
| And deplored the poor child's fate | F |
| She tried to make doll of her finger | C |
| And sang to it poor little singer | C |
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| Her's indeed was an awful lot | G |
| The weary days she spent in cot | G |
| For the poor child she could not walk | H |
| And it soon exhausted her to talk | H |
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| But surgeon bought her ribbon gay | I |
| And with it she all day did play | I |
| The giver often she did bless | J |
| And thought sometimes she was princess | J |
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| For in it she did take such pride | K |
| She fancied she was beauteous bride | K |
| And was possessed of great riches | L |
| Or thought herself a wealthy Duchess | M |
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| And she would bind it round her hair | C |
| Imagining that she was fair | C |
| But poor child feels that she must die | N |
| She asks the surgeon to come nigh | N |
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| And kindly o'er her he doth stand | O |
| She asked him for to take her hand | O |
| Thanked him for ribbon green and blue | P |
| Then evermore bade him adieu | P |
James Mcintyre
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