Man Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCBCDEDE FGFHIJIJ DKDKLMLM NONP QRQRISIS TUVN BKBK| A | |
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| All day he lay upon the sand | B |
| When summer sun was bright | C |
| And let the grains sift through his hand | B |
| With infantile delight | C |
| Just like a child so soft and fair | D |
| Though he was twenty five | E |
| An innocent my mother care | D |
| Had kept so long alive | E |
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| Oh it is hard to bear a cross | F |
| For five and twenty years | G |
| A daft son and a husband's loss | F |
| Are woes out weighing tears | H |
| Yet bright and beautiful was he | I |
| Though barely could he walk | J |
| And when he signaled out to sea | I |
| His talk was baby talk | J |
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| The man I loved was drowned out there | D |
| When we were ten weeks wed | K |
| 'Tis bitter hard a boy to bear | D |
| That's fathered by the dead | K |
| And now I give my life to him | L |
| Because he needs me so | M |
| And as I look my sight is dim | L |
| With pity love and woe | M |
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| Then suddenly I see him rise | N |
| Tall stalwart and serene | O |
| Lo There he stands before my eyes | N |
| The man he might have been | P |
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| Dear Mother mine I hear him say | Q |
| The curse that bound me fast | R |
| Some miracle has swept away | Q |
| And all you pain is past | R |
| Now I am strong and sane and free | I |
| And you shall have your due | S |
| For as you loved and cherished me | I |
| I'll love and cherish you | S |
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| His kisses sooth away my pain | T |
| His clasp is paradise | U |
| Then then I look at him again | V |
| With terror in my eyes | N |
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| For down he sinks upon the sand | B |
| And heavy droops his head | K |
| The golden grains drift through his hand | B |
| I know my boy is dead | K |
Robert William Service
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