Dolls Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBC DDD EEE FFF DDD DDD GGG EEE BCB AAA FFF EEE DDD AAA BBC AAA HHH| She said I am too old to play | A |
| With dolls and put them all away | A |
| Into a box one rainy day | A |
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| I think she must have felt some pain | B |
| She looked so long into the rain | B |
| Then sighed I'll bring you out again | C |
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| For I'll have little children too | D |
| With sunny hair and eyes of blue | D |
| And they will play and play with you | D |
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| And now good bye my pretty dears | E |
| There in the dark for years and years | E |
| Dream of your little mother's tears | E |
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| Eglantine Pierrot and Marie Claire | F |
| Topsy and Tiny and Teddy Bear | F |
| Side by side in the coffer there | F |
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| Time went by one day she kneeled | D |
| By a wooden Cross in Flanders Field | D |
| And wept for the One the earth concealed | D |
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| And made a vow she would never wed | D |
| But always be true to the deathless dead | D |
| Until the span of her life be sped | D |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp | G |
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| More years went on and they made her wise | E |
| By sickness and pain and sacrifice | E |
| With greying tresses and tired eyes | E |
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| And then one evening of weary rain | B |
| She opened the old oak box again | C |
| And her heart was clutched with an ancient pain | B |
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| For there in the quiet dark they lay | A |
| Just as they were when she put them away | A |
| O but it seemed like yesterday | A |
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| Topsy and Tiny and Teddy Bear | F |
| Eglantine Pierrot and Marie Claire | F |
| Ever so hopefully waiting there | F |
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| But she looked at them through her blinding tears | E |
| And she said You've been patient my pretty dears | E |
| You've waited and waited all these years | E |
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| I've broken a promise I made so true | D |
| But my heart my darlings is broken too | D |
| No little Mothers have I for you | D |
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| My hands are withered my hair is grey | A |
| Yet just for a moment I'll try to play | A |
| With you as I did that long dead day | A |
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| Ah no I cannot I try in vain | B |
| I stare and I stare into the rain | B |
| I'll put you back in your box again | C |
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| Bless you darlings perhaps one day | A |
| Some little Mother will find you and play | A |
| And once again you'll be glad and gay | A |
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| But when in the friendly dark I lie | H |
| No one will ever love you as I | H |
| My little children good bye good bye | H |
Robert William Service
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