Man Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEGHIHI CJCJKLKL MNMO PQPQHRHR STUM AJAJ| All day he lay upon the sand | A |
| When summer sun was bright | B |
| And let the grains sift through his hand | A |
| With infantile delight | B |
| Just like a child so soft and fair | C |
| Though he was twenty five | D |
| An innocent my mother care | C |
| Had kept so long alive | D |
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| Oh it is hard to bear a cross | E |
| For five and twenty years | F |
| A daft son and a husband's loss | E |
| Are woes out weighing tears | G |
| Yet bright and beautiful was he | H |
| Though barely could he walk | I |
| And when he signaled out to sea | H |
| His talk was baby talk | I |
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| The man I loved was drowned out there | C |
| When we were ten weeks wed | J |
| 'Tis bitter hard a boy to bear | C |
| That's fathered by the dead | J |
| And now I give my life to him | K |
| Because he needs me so | L |
| And as I look my sight is dim | K |
| With pity love and woe | L |
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| Then suddenly I see him rise | M |
| Tall stalwart and serene | N |
| Lo There he stands before my eyes | M |
| The man he might have been | O |
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| Dear Mother mine I hear him say | P |
| The curse that bound me fast | Q |
| Some miracle has swept away | P |
| And all you pain is past | Q |
| Now I am strong and sane and free | H |
| And you shall have your due | R |
| For as you loved and cherished me | H |
| I'll love and cherish you | R |
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| His kisses sooth away my pain | S |
| His clasp is paradise | T |
| Then then I look at him again | U |
| With terror in my eyes | M |
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| For down he sinks upon the sand | A |
| And heavy droops his head | J |
| The golden grains drift through his hand | A |
| I know my boy is dead | J |
Robert Service
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