The Sea-child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCC ADAD BEB AFAF| Into the world you sent her mother | A |
| Fashioned her body of coral and foam | B |
| Combed a wave in her hair's warm smother | A |
| And drove her away from home | B |
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| In the dark of the night she crept to the town | C |
| And under a doorway she laid her down | C |
| The little blue child in the foam fringed gown | C |
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| And never a sister and never a brother | A |
| To hear her call to answer her cry | D |
| Her face shone out from her hair's warm smother | A |
| Like a moonkin up in the sky | D |
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| She sold her corals she sold her foam | B |
| Her rainbow heart like a singing shell | E |
| Broke in her body she crept back home | B |
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| Peace go back to the world my daughter | A |
| Daughter go back to the darkling land | F |
| There is nothing here but sad sea water | A |
| And a handful of sifting sand | F |
Katherine Mansfield
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