The Locket Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFEBGG HBHBII JKJKLL MNMN OJFrom out her shabby rain coat pocket | A |
The little Jew girl in the train | B |
Produced a dinted silver locket | C |
With pasted in it portraits twain | B |
These are my parents sir she said | D |
Or were for now I fear they're dead | D |
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I know to Belsen they were sent | E |
I never heard of them again | F |
So many were like that they went | E |
Our woeful quest was all in vain | B |
I was in London with a friend | G |
Or I too would have shared their end | G |
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They could have got away I'm told | H |
And joined me here in Marylebne | B |
But Grannie was so sick and old | H |
They could not leave her there alone | B |
When they were seized she cried and cried | I |
Thank God 'Twas in her bed she died | I |
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How did they die I cannot bear | J |
To think of that it crazes me | K |
My mother was so sweet so fair | J |
My father handsome as you see | K |
I'm sure no daughter ever had | L |
More lovely parents Yes it's sad | L |
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But for their loss I shall not grieve | M |
I'll hug the hope they still survive | N |
Oh I must make myself believe | M |
Somehow somewhere they're still alive | N |
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Well that's my only souvenir | O |
A locket stained with many a tear | J |
Robert Service
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