The Dead Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A A BC B D ED E F GF G| I believe in the resurrection of the body | A |
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| How young you are for such lone majesty | A |
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| Of silence and repose | B |
| That lip was vowed to laughter and that eye | C |
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| That white cheek to the rose | B |
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| What age your spirit hath who thinks to say | D |
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| If young or young no more | E |
| But all for merriment oh all for play | D |
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| That new sweet shape it wore | E |
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| So in His time to whom all time is now | F |
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| From flower and wind and steep | G |
| Shall He not summon you to keep your vow | F |
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| Since He hath made you sleep | G |
Margaret Steele Anderson
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