Bastard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDF GH IH AJAJ KHKH LMLM NANA MOMO HPHP| The very skies wee black with shame | A |
| As near my moment drew | B |
| The very hour before you cam | C |
| I felt I hated you | B |
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| But now I see how fair you are | D |
| How divine your eyes | E |
| It seems I step upon a star | D |
| To leap to Paradise | F |
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| What care I who your father was | G |
| 'Twas better no to know | H |
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| You're mine and mine alone because | I |
| I love and love you so | H |
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| What though you only bear my name | A |
| I hold my head on high | J |
| For none shall have a right to claim | A |
| A right to you but I | J |
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| Because I've borne a human life | K |
| I'm worthier I know | H |
| Than those who flaunt the name of wife | K |
| And have no seed to show | H |
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| I have fulfilled I think with joy | L |
| My women's destiny | M |
| And glad am I you are a boy | L |
| For you will fight for me | M |
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| And maybe there will come a day | N |
| You'll bear a famous name | A |
| And men will be ashamed to say | N |
| He was a child of shame | A |
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| A day will dawn divinely free | M |
| With love in every breast | O |
| When every child will welcome be | M |
| And every mother blest | O |
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| When every women wed or no | H |
| Will deem her highest good | P |
| On grateful mankind to bestow | H |
| The Gift of Motherhood | P |
Robert Service
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