Seven Times Six. Giving In Marriage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABAB CDCDCECE FGFHFHFH CBCBABAB| To bear to nurse to rear | A |
| To watch and then to lose | B |
| To see my bright ones disappear | A |
| Drawn up like morning dews | B |
| To bear to nurse to rear | A |
| To watch and then to lose | B |
| This have I done when God drew near | A |
| Among his own to choose | B |
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| To hear to heed to wed | C |
| And with thy lord depart | D |
| In tears that he as soon as shed | C |
| Will let no longer smart | D |
| To hear to heed to wed | C |
| This while thou didst I smiled | E |
| For now it was not God who said | C |
| Mother give ME thy child | E |
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| O fond O fool and blind | F |
| To God I gave with tears | G |
| But when a man like grace would find | F |
| My soul put by her fears | H |
| O fond O fool and blind | F |
| God guards in happier spheres | H |
| That man will guard where he did bind | F |
| Is hope for unknown years | H |
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| To hear to heed to wed | C |
| Fair lot that maidens choose | B |
| Thy mother's tenderest words are said | C |
| Thy face no more she views | B |
| Thy mother's lot my dear | A |
| She doth in nought accuse | B |
| Her lot to bear to nurse to rear | A |
| To love and then to lose | B |
Jean Ingelow
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