My Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GDHD AIJI KKLK KDKD KMNL OPQQ BMNL RSKS| I have a little boy at home | A |
| A pretty little son | B |
| I think sometimes the world is mine | C |
| In him my only one | B |
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| But seldom seldom do I see | D |
| My child in heaven's light | E |
| I find him always fast asleep | F |
| I see him but at night | E |
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| Ere dawn my labor drives me forth | G |
| 'Tis night when I am free | D |
| A stranger am I to my child | H |
| And strange my child to me | D |
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| I come in darkness to my home | A |
| With weariness and pay | I |
| My pallid wife she waits to tell | J |
| The things he learned to say | I |
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| How plain and prettily he asked | K |
| Dear mamma when's 'Tonight' | K |
| O when will come my dear papa | L |
| And bring a penny bright | K |
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| I hear her words I hasten out | K |
| This moment must it be | D |
| The father love flames in my breast | K |
| My child must look at me | D |
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| I stand beside the tiny cot | K |
| And look and list and ah | M |
| A dream thought moves the baby lips | N |
| O where is my papa | L |
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| I kiss and kiss the shut blue eyes | O |
| I kiss them not in vain | P |
| They open O they see me then | Q |
| And straightway close again | Q |
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| Here's your papa my precious one | B |
| A penny for you ah | M |
| A dream still moves the baby lips | N |
| O where is my papa | L |
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| And I I think in bitterness | R |
| And disappointment sore | S |
| Some day you will awake my child | K |
| To find me nevermore | S |
Morris Rosenfeld
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