The Little Girl's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADE EFGHGGE AIJIIJJKJL LDE ELGLMMKGKGLLDE ELLNANLLDE OPPGQG RRLQPLPLRLESESETTAGS GSSES EAEBCADEDo not mind my crying Papa I am not crying for pain | A |
Do not mind my shaking Papa I am not shaking with fear | B |
Tho' the wild wild wind is bideous to hear | C |
And I see the snow and the rain | A |
When will you come back again | D |
Papa Papa | E |
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Somebody else that you love Papa | E |
Somebody else that you dearly love | F |
Is weary like me because you're away | G |
Sometimes I see her lips tremble and move | H |
And I seem to know what they're going to say | G |
And every day and all the long day | G |
I long to cry 'Oh Mamma Mamma | E |
When will Papa come back again ' | - |
But before I can say it I see the pain | A |
Creeping up on her white white cheek | I |
As the sweet sad sunshine creeps up the white wall | J |
And then I am sorry and fear to speak | I |
And slowly the pain goes out of her cheek | I |
As the sad sweet sunshine goes from the wall | J |
Oh I wish I were grown up wise and tall | J |
That I might throw my arms round her neck | K |
And say 'Dear Mamma oh what is it all | J |
That I see and see and do not see | L |
In your white white face all the livelong day ' | - |
But she hides her grief from a child like me | L |
When will you come back again | D |
Papa Papa | E |
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Where were you going Papa Papa | E |
All this long while have you been on the sea | L |
When she looks as if she saw far away | G |
Is she thinking of you and what does she see | L |
Are the white sails blowing | M |
And the blue men rowing | M |
And are you standing on the high deck | K |
Where we saw you stand till the ship grew gray | G |
And we watched and watched till the ship was a speck | K |
And the dark came first to you far away | G |
I wish I could see what she can see | L |
But she hides her grief from a child like me | L |
When will you come back again | D |
Papa Papa | E |
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Don't you remember Papa Papa | E |
How we used to sit by the fire all three | L |
And she told me tales while I sat on her knee | L |
And heard the winter winds roar down the street | N |
And knock like men at the window pane | A |
And the louder they roared oh it seemed more sweet | N |
To be warm and warm as we used to be | L |
Sitting at night by the fire all three | L |
When will you come back again | D |
Papa Papa | E |
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Papa I like to sit by the fire | O |
Why does she sit far away in the cold | P |
If I had but somebody wise and old | P |
That every day I might cry and say | G |
'Is she changed do you think or do I forget | Q |
Was she always as white as she is to day | G |
Did she never carry her head up higher ' | - |
Papa Papa if I could but know | R |
Do you think her voice was always so low | R |
Did I always see what I seem to see | L |
When I wake up at night and her pillow is wet | Q |
You used to say her hair it was gold | P |
It looks like silver to me | L |
But still she tells the same tale that she told | P |
She sings the same songs when I sit on her knee | L |
And the house goes on as it went long ago | R |
When we lived together all three | L |
Sometimes my heart seems to sink Papa | E |
And I feel as if I could be happy no more | S |
Is she changed do you think Papa | E |
Or did I dream she was brighter before | S |
She makes me remember my snowdrop Papa | E |
That I forgot in thinking of you | T |
The sweetest snowdrop that ever I knew | T |
But I put it out of the sun and the rain | A |
It was green and white when I put it away | G |
It had one sweet bell and green leaves four | S |
It was green and white when I found it that day | G |
It had one pale bell and green leaves four | S |
But I was not glad of it any more | S |
Was it changed do you think Papa | E |
Or did I dream it was brighter before | S |
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Do not mind my crying Papa | E |
I am not crying for pain | A |
Do not mind my shaking Papa | E |
I am not shaking for fear | B |
Tho' the wild wild wind is hideous to hear | C |
And I see the snow and the rain | A |
When will you come back again | D |
Papa Papa | E |
Sydney Thompson Dobell
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