Poor Kid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD EDEDFF GHGHII JKJKLLMumsie and Dad are raven dark | A |
And I am lily blonde | B |
''Tis strange ' I once heard nurse remark | A |
'You do not correspond ' | C |
And yet they claim me as their own | D |
Born of their flesh and bone | D |
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To doubt their parenthood I dread | E |
But now to girlhood grown | D |
The thought is haunting in my head | E |
That I am not their own | D |
If so my radiant bloom of youth | F |
Would wither in the truth | F |
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'Twould give me anguish deep to know | G |
A fondling babe was I | H |
And that a maid in wedless woe | G |
Left me to live or die | H |
I'd rather Mother lied and lied | I |
To save my pride | I |
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I love them both and they love me | J |
I am their all they say | K |
Yet though the sweetest home have we | J |
To know I'm theirs I pray | K |
If not please dear ones never tell | L |
The truth would be of hell | L |
Robert Service
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