Poor Kid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD EDEDFF GHGHII JKJKLL| Mumsie and Dad are raven dark | A |
| And I am lily blonde | B |
| ''Tis strange ' I once heard nurse remark | A |
| 'You do not correspond ' | C |
| And yet they claim me as their own | D |
| Born of their flesh and bone | D |
| - | |
| To doubt their parenthood I dread | E |
| But now to girlhood grown | D |
| The thought is haunting in my head | E |
| That I am not their own | D |
| If so my radiant bloom of youth | F |
| Would wither in the truth | F |
| - | |
| 'Twould give me anguish deep to know | G |
| A fondling babe was I | H |
| And that a maid in wedless woe | G |
| Left me to live or die | H |
| I'd rather Mother lied and lied | I |
| To save my pride | I |
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| I love them both and they love me | J |
| I am their all they say | K |
| Yet though the sweetest home have we | J |
| To know I'm theirs I pray | K |
| If not please dear ones never tell | L |
| The truth would be of hell | L |
Robert William Service
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