Francie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HICI JKLM CNDN OPQP RSTS| I loved a child as we should love | A |
| Each other everywhere | B |
| I cared more for his happiness | C |
| Than I dreaded my own despair | B |
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| An angel asked me to give him | D |
| My whole life's dearest cost | E |
| And in adding mine to his treasures | F |
| I knew they could never be lost | G |
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| To his heart I gave the gold | H |
| Though little my own had known | I |
| To his eyes what tenderness | C |
| From youth in mine had grown | I |
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| I gave him all my buoyant | J |
| Hope for my future years | K |
| I gave him whatever melody | L |
| My voice had steeped in tears | M |
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| Upon the shore of darkness | C |
| His drifted body lies | N |
| He is dead and I stand beside him | D |
| With his beauty in my eyes | N |
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| I am like those withered petals | O |
| We see on a winter day | P |
| That gladly gave their color | Q |
| In the happy summer away | P |
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| I am glad I lavished my worthiest | R |
| To fashion his greater worth | S |
| Since he will live in heaven | T |
| I shall lie content in the earth | S |
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