Adoption Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGAGA HIHJKLML| Because I was a woman lone | A |
| And had of friends so few | B |
| I made two little ones my own | A |
| Whose parents no one knew | B |
| Unwanted foundlings of the night | C |
| Left at the convent door | D |
| Whose tiny hands in piteous plight | C |
| Seemed to implore | D |
| - | |
| By Deed to them I gave my name | E |
| And never will they know | F |
| That from the evil slums they came | E |
| Two waifs of want and woe | F |
| I fostered them with love and care | G |
| As if they were my own | A |
| Now John my son is tall and fair | G |
| And dark is Joan | A |
| - | |
| My boy's a member of the Bar | H |
| My girl a nurse serene | I |
| Yet when I think of what they are | H |
| And what they might have been | J |
| With shuddering I glimpse a hell | K |
| Of black and bitter fruit | L |
| Where John might be a criminal | M |
| And Joan a prostitute | L |
Robert William Service
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