To A Childless Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBCC CDEDE FGFG HIIHAJAJ| You think I cannot understand Ah but I do | A |
| I have been wrung with anger and compassion for you | A |
| I wonder if you'd loathe my pity if you knew | A |
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| But you shall know I've carried in my heart too long | B |
| This secret burden Has not silence wrought your wrong | B |
| Brought you to dumb and wintry middle age with grey | C |
| Unfruitful withering Ah the pitiless things I say | C |
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| What do you ask your God for at the end of day | C |
| Kneeling beside your bed with bowed and hopeless head | D |
| What mercy can He give you Dreams of the unborn | E |
| Children that haunt your soul like loving words unsaid | D |
| Dreams as a song half heard through sleep in early morn | E |
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| I see you in the chapel where you bend before | F |
| The enhaloed calm of everlasting Motherhood | G |
| That wounds your life I see you humbled to adore | F |
| The painted miracle you've never understood | G |
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| Tender and bitter sweet and shy I've watched you holding | H |
| Another's child O childless woman was it then | I |
| That with an instant's cry your heart made young again | I |
| Was crucified for ever those poor arms enfolding | H |
| The life the consummation that had been denied you | A |
| I too have longed for children Ah but you must not weep | J |
| Something I have to whisper as I kneel beside you | A |
| And you must pray for me before you fall asleep | J |
Siegfried Sassoon
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