When Bessie Died Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DDEEFFDDD DDGGHHDD DDIIJKLLDDD| If from your own the dimpled hands had slipped | A |
| And ne'er would nestle in your palm again | B |
| If the white feet into the grave had tripped ' | C |
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| When Bessie died | D |
| We braided the brown hair and tied | D |
| It just as her own little hands | E |
| Had fastened back the silken strands | E |
| A thousand times the crimson bit | F |
| Of ribbon woven into it | F |
| That she had worn with childish pride | D |
| Smoothed down the dainty bow and cried | D |
| When Bessie died | D |
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| When Bessie died | D |
| We drew the nursery blinds aside | D |
| And as the morning in the room | G |
| Burst like a primrose into bloom | G |
| Her pet canary's cage we hung | H |
| Where she might hear him when he sung | H |
| And yet not any note he tried | D |
| Though she lay listening folded eyed | D |
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| When Bessie died | D |
| We writhed in prayer unsatisfied | D |
| We begged of God and He did smile | I |
| In silence on us all the while | I |
| And we did see Him through our tears | J |
| Enfolding that fair form of hers | K |
| She laughing back against His love | L |
| The kisses had nothing of | L |
| And death to us He still denied | D |
| When Bessie died | D |
| When Bessie died | D |
James Whitcomb Riley
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