Waiting At The Gate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK MNONPQRQ STSTUDVD WAXAYZA2Z BB2C2B2FSDD2 EE2EE2WF2WF2| Draw closer to my side to night | A |
| Dear wife give me thy hand | B |
| My heart is sad with memories | C |
| Which thou canst understand | B |
| Its twenty years this very day | D |
| I know thou minds it well | E |
| Since o'er our happy wedded life | F |
| The heaviest trouble fell | E |
| - | |
| We stood beside the little cot | G |
| But not a word we said | H |
| With breaking hearts we learned alas | I |
| Our little Claude was dead | H |
| He was the last child born to us | J |
| The loveliest the best | K |
| I sometimes fear we loved him more | L |
| Than any of the rest | K |
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| We tried to say Thy will be done | M |
| We strove to be resigned | N |
| But all in vain our loss had left | O |
| Too deep a wound behind | N |
| I saw the tears roll down thy cheek | P |
| And shared thy misery | Q |
| But could not speak a soothing word | R |
| I could but grieve with thee | Q |
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| He looked so calm so sweet so fair | S |
| Why should we stand and weep | T |
| Death had but paused a moment there | S |
| And put our pet to sleep | T |
| The weary hours crept sadly on | U |
| Until the burial day | D |
| Then in the deep cold gravel grave | V |
| We saw him laid away | D |
| - | |
| His little bed was taen apart | W |
| His toys put out of sight | A |
| His brother and his sister soon | X |
| Grew gay again and bright | A |
| But we dear wife we ne'er threw off | Y |
| The sorrow o'er us cast | Z |
| And even yet at times we grieve | A2 |
| Though twenty years have passed | Z |
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| We know he's in a better land | B |
| A heaven where all is bliss | B2 |
| Nor would we try if we'd the power | C2 |
| To bring him back to this | B2 |
| Draw closer to my side dear wife | F |
| And wipe away that tear | S |
| Heaven does not seem so far away | D |
| I seem to feel him near | D2 |
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| He'll come no more with us to dwell | E |
| For our life's lamp burns dim | E2 |
| But He who doeth all things well | E |
| Will draw us up to Him | E2 |
| Come closer wife let us not part | W |
| We have not long to wait | F2 |
| A something whispers to my heart | W |
| Claude's waiting at the Gate | F2 |
John Hartley
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