Poor Little Joe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEDGHGIDJD KLMLNLOLIOPOAQKQRSTS HOHOUVWVIXTLYSJS ZWRWTA2AA2B2SJS| A ring on the door bell | A |
| Some one at the door | B |
| Mute asking admittance | C |
| Where never before | B |
| A stranger in midnight | D |
| In silence and stealth | E |
| Sought access to gain | F |
| In a mansion of wealth | E |
| Into the gaslight | D |
| A package is borne | G |
| Quickly from round it | H |
| The wrappings are torn | G |
| What is it a baby | I |
| What seek you to night | D |
| So rosy and smiling | J |
| Nor in fear nor in fright | D |
| - | |
| Ah little intruder | K |
| What is it you wear | L |
| So close to your breast | M |
| Sure but hand in despair | L |
| Could have written the message | N |
| Unconscious you bear | L |
| And loved and God blessed you | O |
| While leaving you there | L |
| Let's see the story | I |
| 'Tis telling for you | O |
| How brief and pathetic | P |
| But can it be true | O |
| A mother heart brokenly | A |
| Praying in grief | Q |
| From hand of a stranger | K |
| Her baby's relief | Q |
| He's helpless and homeless | R |
| But stainless as snow | S |
| O take him and keep him | T |
| My poor little Joe | S |
| - | |
| That's all there is of it | H |
| If false or if true | O |
| Yet long enough seems it | H |
| And sad enough too | O |
| No love welcomed greeted | U |
| The sweet baby face | V |
| In the life that gave his life | W |
| There was not a place | V |
| No place for the baby | I |
| There's none for him here | X |
| No heart that may give him | T |
| A smile or a tear | L |
| Off to the refuge | Y |
| For such he must go | S |
| He's only a foundling | J |
| Poor little Joe | S |
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| Deserted forsaken | Z |
| Thrust out in the strife | W |
| Adrift on the pitiless | R |
| Ocean of life | W |
| What will become of him | T |
| Who may decide | A2 |
| If good or if evil | A |
| His life shall betide | A2 |
| No tender caresses | B2 |
| Ever to know | S |
| Nor guidance nor blessing | J |
| Poor little Joe | S |
Madge Morris Wagner
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