Dolls Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBC DDD EEE FFF DDD DDD EEE BCB AAA FFF EEE DDD AAA BBC AAA GGGShe said I am too old to play | A |
With dolls and put them all away | A |
Into a box one rainy day | A |
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I think she must have felt some pain | B |
She looked so long into the rain | B |
Then sighed I'll bring you out again | C |
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For I'll have little children too | D |
With sunny hair and eyes of blue | D |
And they will play and play with you | D |
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And now good bye my pretty dears | E |
There in the dark for years and years | E |
Dream of your little mother's tears | E |
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Eglantine Pierrot and Marie Claire | F |
Topsy and Tiny and Teddy Bear | F |
Side by side in the coffer there | F |
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Time went by one day she kneeled | D |
By a wooden Cross in Flanders Field | D |
And wept for the One the earth concealed | D |
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And made a vow she would never wed | D |
But always be true to the deathless dead | D |
Until the span of her life be sped | D |
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More years went on and they made her wise | E |
By sickness and pain and sacrifice | E |
With greying tresses and tired eyes | E |
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And then one evening of weary rain | B |
She opened the old oak box again | C |
And her heart was clutched with an ancient pain | B |
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For there in the quiet dark they lay | A |
Just as they were when she put them away | A |
O but it seemed like yesterday | A |
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Topsy and Tiny and Teddy Bear | F |
Eglantine Pierrot and Marie Claire | F |
Ever so hopefully waiting there | F |
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But she looked at them through her blinding tears | E |
And she said You've been patient my pretty dears | E |
You've waited and waited all these years | E |
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I've broken a promise I made so true | D |
But my heart my darlings is broken too | D |
No little Mothers have I for you | D |
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My hands are withered my hair is grey | A |
Yet just for a moment I'll try to play | A |
With you as I did that long dead day | A |
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Ah no I cannot I try in vain | B |
I stare and I stare into the rain | B |
I'll put you back in your box again | C |
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Bless you darlings perhaps one day | A |
Some little Mother will find you and play | A |
And once again you'll be glad and gay | A |
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But when in the friendly dark I lie | G |
No one will ever love you as I | G |
My little children good bye good bye | G |
Robert Service
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