My Baby Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FFGG HHII GGJJ DDKL AAGG BBMM AANN| He lay on my breast so sweet and fair | A |
| I fondly fancied his home was there | A |
| Nor thought that the eyes of merry blue | B |
| With baby love for me laughing through | B |
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| Were pining to go from whence he came | C |
| Leaving my arm empty and heart in pain | D |
| Longing to spread out his wings and fly | E |
| To his native home far beyond the sky | E |
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| They took him out of my arms and said | F |
| My baby so sweet and fair was dead | F |
| My baby that was my heart's delight | G |
| The fair little body they robed in white | G |
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| Flowers they placed at the head and feet | H |
| Like my baby fair like my baby sweet | H |
| They laid him down in a certain place | I |
| And round him they draped soft folds of lace | I |
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| Till I'd look my last at my baby white | G |
| Before they carried him from my sight | G |
| By the sweet dead babe so fair to see | J |
| They tried in kindness to comfort me | J |
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| They said he is safe from care and pain | D |
| Safe and unspotted by sin or stain | D |
| Before the mystery of the years | K |
| Brings heart ache or pang or sorrow's tears | L |
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| He's safe sweet lamb in the Shepherd's care | A |
| Sorrow nor suffering enters there | A |
| But with brow of gladness clothed in light | G |
| He is fair as the angels in His sight | G |
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| I know what they said to me was true | B |
| And should have fallen on my heart like dew | B |
| For although my grief was very sore | M |
| My baby was safe for evermore | M |
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| I know that they spoke with kindly care | A |
| My grief to comfort and soothe or share | A |
| But I gave my baby the last last kiss | N |
| Saying God alone comforts grief like this | N |
Nora Pembroke (margaret Moran Dixon Mcdougall)
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