A Baby's Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DADA EFEF GHIH JKLK MAMA| A little white soul went up to God | A |
| Out of the mire of the city street | B |
| It grew like a flower in the highway broad | C |
| Close to the trample of heedless feet | B |
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| It fell like a snow flake over night | D |
| Into the ways by vile ones trod | A |
| It sparkled dissolved in the morning light | D |
| And the little white soul went up to God | A |
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| Dainty flower soft waxen thing | E |
| Its clear eyes opened on this bad earth | F |
| And the little shuddering soul took wing | E |
| By the gate of death from the gate of birth | F |
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| Not for those innocent lips and eyes | G |
| The words and the ways of sin and strife | H |
| The pure flower opened in paradise | I |
| Fast by the banks of the river of life | H |
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| Yea little victors who never fought | J |
| And crowned though ye never ran the race | K |
| His blood your innocent lives hath bought | L |
| And ye stand before Him and see His face | K |
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| For this oh Father we give Thee thanks | M |
| By the little graves and the tear wet sod | A |
| They stand before Thee in shining ranks | M |
| And the little white souls are safe with God | A |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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