In Childbed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CD EFEF EBEB GBGB| In the middle of the night | A |
| Mother's spirit came and spoke to me | B |
| Looking weariful and white | A |
| As 'twere untimely news she broke to me | B |
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| O my daughter joyed are you | C |
| To own the weetless child you mother there | D |
| 'Men may search the wide world through ' | - |
| You think 'nor find so fair another there ' | - |
| - | |
| Dear this midnight time unwombs | E |
| Thousands just as rare and beautiful | F |
| Thousands whom High Heaven foredooms | E |
| To be as bright as good as dutiful | F |
| - | |
| Source of ecstatic hopes and fears | E |
| And innocent maternal vanity | B |
| Your fond exploit but shapes for tears | E |
| New thoroughfares in sad humanity | B |
| - | |
| Yet as you dream so dreamt I | G |
| When Life stretched forth its morning ray to me | B |
| Other views for by and by | G |
| Such strange things did mother say to me | B |
Thomas Hardy
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