Given And Taken Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE DBDBGHAH IJKJDLML LNONLLLL KPQPGLAL LRSRLTMT QLALLUMUThe snow flakes were softly falling | A |
Adown on the landscape white | B |
When the violet eyes of my first born | C |
Opened unto the light | B |
And I thought as I pressed him to me | D |
With loving rapturous thrill | E |
He was pure and fair as the snow flakes | F |
That lay on the landscape still | E |
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I smiled when they spoke of the weary | D |
Length of the winter s night | B |
Of the days so short and so dreary | D |
Of the sun s cold cheerless light | B |
I listened but in their murmurs | G |
Nor by word nor thought took part | H |
For the smiles of my gentle darling | A |
Brought light to my home and heart | H |
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Oh quickly the joyous springtime | I |
Came back to our ice bound earth | J |
Filling meadows and woods with sunshine | K |
And hearts with gladsome mirth | J |
But ah on earth s dawning beauty | D |
There rested a gloomy shade | L |
For our tiny household blossom | M |
Began to droop and fade | L |
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And I shuddering felt that the frailest | L |
Of the flowers in the old woods dim | N |
Had a surer hold on existence | O |
Than I dared to hope for him | N |
In the flush of the summer s beauty | L |
On a sunny golden day | L |
When flowers gemmed dell and upland | L |
My darling passed away | L |
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Now I chafed at the brilliant sunshine | K |
That flooded my lonely room | P |
Now I wearied of bounteous Nature | Q |
So full of life and bloom | P |
I regretted the wintry hours | G |
With the snow flakes falling fast | L |
And the little form of my nursling | A |
With his arms around me cast | L |
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They laid his tiny garment | L |
In an attic chamber high | R |
His coral his empty cradle | S |
That they might not meet my eye | R |
And his name was never uttered | L |
What e er each heart might feel | T |
For they wished the wound in my bosom | M |
Might have tune to close and heal | T |
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It has done so thanks to that Power | Q |
That has been my earthly stay | L |
And should you talk of my darling | A |
I could listen now all day | L |
For I know that each passing minute | L |
Brings me nearer life s last shore | U |
And nearer that glorious Kingdom | M |
Where we both shall meet once more | U |
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
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