On A Dead Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CAAC ADDA EFFE GHHG AIIA JKKJ| Perfect little body without fault or stain on thee | A |
| With promise of strength and manhood full and fair | B |
| Though cold and stark and bare | B |
| The bloom and the charm of life doth awhile remain on thee | A |
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| Thy mother's treasure wert thou alas no longer | C |
| To visit her heart with wondrous joy to be | A |
| Thy father's pride ah he | A |
| Must gather his faith together and his strength make stronger | C |
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| To me as I move thee now in the last duty | A |
| Dost thou with a turn or gesture anon respond | D |
| Startling my fancy fond | D |
| With a chance attitude of the head a freak of beauty | A |
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| Thy hand clasps as 'twas wont my finger and holds it | E |
| But the grasp is the clasp of Death heartbreaking and stiff | F |
| Yet feels to my hand as if | F |
| 'Twas still thy will thy pleasure and trust that enfolds it | E |
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| So I lay thee there thy sunken eyelids closing | G |
| Go lie thou there in thy coffin thy last little bed | H |
| Propping thy wise sad head | H |
| Thy firm pale hands across thy chest disposing | G |
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| So quiet doth the change content thee Death whither hath he taken thee | A |
| To a world do I think that rights the disaster of this | I |
| The vision of which I miss | I |
| Who weep for the body and wish but to warm thee and awaken thee | A |
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| Ah little at best can all our hopes avail us | J |
| To lift this sorrow or cheer us when in the dark | K |
| Unwilling alone we embark | K |
| And the things we have seen and have known and have heard of fail us | J |
Robert Seymour Bridges
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