Edgar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBB ACADDD EFEFFF GHGHHI JKJKKK LMLMNN| I have not wept for Edgar as a mother | A |
| Weeps for the tender lamb she lays to rest | B |
| And yet it cannot be that any other | A |
| Baby like him shall lie upon my breast | B |
| For he was with us but a passing guest | B |
| A birdling that belonged not to the nest | B |
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| Looking upon his large dark eyes so tender | A |
| Filled with the solemn light of Paradise | C |
| I knew that word would soon come to surrender | A |
| My babe not mine but native to the skies | D |
| As the sweet lark that ever upward flies | D |
| He would be taken from my longing eyes | D |
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| For from the first he looked to be earth weary | E |
| And clung to me with no desire to play | F |
| He never laughed and crowed with spirit cheery | E |
| Like my earth babies but from day to day | F |
| Seemed ever yearning for the far away | F |
| And well I knew he could not with me stay | F |
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| The angels whispered things I knew not of | G |
| My babe had visions of a far off land | H |
| I knew it that he yearned for higher love | G |
| And reached to touch another unseen hand | H |
| That drew him from my little household band | H |
| They wailed for him of whom they were so fond | I |
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| And when he closed his eyes and fell asleep | J |
| Loosening his baby grasp away from mine | K |
| Turning from me that had no power to keep | J |
| The glory of a placidness divine | K |
| Beamed on his face I took it for a sign | K |
| And bowed my head to say Thy will is mine | K |
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| I weep for him in silence of the night | L |
| I see him where the holy angels are | M |
| His radiant eyes have lost their mournful light | L |
| And beam with happy glory like a star | M |
| I weep with mournful joy to think that where | N |
| The Master is my little babe is there | N |
Nora Pembroke (margaret Moran Dixon Mcdougall)
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