The Drunkard's Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGHGIDJD KCACALEM ENJNLOEO HCACCPAP| A little child stood moaning | A |
| At the hour of midnight lone | B |
| And no human ear was list'ning | A |
| To the feebly wailing tone | B |
| The cold keen blast of winter | C |
| With funeral wail swept by | D |
| And the blinding snow fell darkly | E |
| Through the murky wintry sky | D |
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| Ah desolate and wretched | F |
| Was the drunkard's outcast child | G |
| Driven forth amidst the horrors | H |
| Of that night of tempests wild | G |
| The babe so fondly cherished | I |
| Once 'neath a parent's eye | D |
| Now laid her down in anguish | J |
| Midst the drifting snows to die | D |
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| Papa papa she murmured | K |
| The night is cold and drear | C |
| And I'm freezing Oh I'm freezing | A |
| In the storm and darkness here | C |
| My naked feet are stiff'ning | A |
| And my little hands are numb | L |
| Papa can I not come to thee | E |
| And warm myself at home | M |
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| Mamma mamma more wildly | E |
| The little suff'rer cried | N |
| Forgetting in her anguish | J |
| How her stricken mother died | N |
| Oh take me to your bosom | L |
| And warm me on your breast | O |
| Then lay me down and kiss me | E |
| In my little bed to rest | O |
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| Poor child the sleep that gathers | H |
| Thy stiffened eyelids o'er | C |
| Will know no weary waking | A |
| To a life of anguish more | C |
| Sleep on the snows may gather | C |
| O'er thy cold and pulseless form | P |
| Thou art resting calmly resting | A |
| In the wild dark midnight storm | P |
Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)
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