Somebody's Baby's Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE ABAB CGHG IBIB| A hearse all draped in mourning | A |
| With white plumes overhead | B |
| Bearing a little coffin | C |
| Somebody's baby's dead | B |
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| Upon the velvet cover | D |
| Some hand has placed a wreath | E |
| White as the waxen features | F |
| Of the baby that lies beneath | E |
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| Out in the graveyard making | A |
| A rest for a shining head | B |
| Somebody's heart is breaking | A |
| Somebody's baby's dead | B |
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| Over a baby's coffin | C |
| Heaping a mound of clay | G |
| Somebody's hopes are buried | H |
| In that little grave to day | G |
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| Somebody's home is dreary | I |
| Somebody's sunshine fled | B |
| Somebody's sad and weary | I |
| Somebody's baby's dead | B |
Madge Morris Wagner
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