Seven Times Four. Maternity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCB CDEDEF CGCGCG CBHBHB| Heigh ho daisies and buttercups | A |
| Fair yellow daffodils stately and tall | B |
| When the wind wakes how they rock in the grasses | C |
| And dance with the cuckoo buds slender and small | B |
| Here's two bonny boys and here's mother's own lasses | C |
| Eager to gather them all | B |
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| Heigh ho daisies and buttercups | C |
| Mother shall thread them a daisy chain | D |
| Sing them a song of the pretty hedge sparrow | E |
| That loved her brown little ones loved them full fain | D |
| Sing Heart thou art wide though the house be but narrow | E |
| Sing once and sing it again | F |
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| Heigh ho daisies and buttercups | C |
| Sweet wagging cowslips they bend and they bow | G |
| A ship sails afar over warm ocean waters | C |
| And haply one musing doth stand at her prow | G |
| O bonny brown sons and O sweet little daughters | C |
| Maybe he thinks on you now | G |
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| Heigh ho daisies and buttercups | C |
| Fair yellow daffodils stately and tall | B |
| A sunshiny world full of laughter and leisure | H |
| And fresh hearts unconscious of sorrow and thrall | B |
| Send down on their pleasure smiles passing its measure | H |
| God that is over us all | B |
Jean Ingelow
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