Comfort Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDD EEFGH IIJJKL MMNNEE| Now she need dread no more to grow | A |
| Too old for him she need not know | A |
| The bitterness when he who was | B |
| All hers turns to some younger face | C |
| And she his mother stands aside | D |
| Bidding her heart be satisfied | D |
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| She need not to her own heart say | E |
| 'Fool to be jealous Now give way | E |
| The young are for the young and all | F |
| The new things are but natural | G |
| Cast no least shadow on his feast | H |
| Be glad just to be second best ' | - |
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| She need not to her chill heart tell | I |
| She's loved a different way but well | I |
| And like that bird who leans her heart | J |
| Upon a thorn to ease its smart | J |
| Turn to the child who's taken his love | K |
| So that her darling son approve | L |
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| Now she's no longer dispossessed | M |
| For second best's but second best | M |
| He's hers for all Eternity | N |
| And she his one felicity | N |
| Her little son as when he lay | E |
| Small in her arms one heavenly day | E |
Katharine Tynan
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