The Baby In The Ward Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDEDCE| We were all sore and broken and keen on sleep | A |
| Tumours and hearts and dropsies there we lay | B |
| Weary of night and wearier of day | B |
| With no more health in us than rotten sheep | A |
| Then tossed to us on some intangible deep | A |
| Alicia came and each man learnt to pray | B |
| That Providence would please find out a way | B |
| To still or abate the voice with which she would weep | A |
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| God's infinite mercy how that child did cry | C |
| In spite of bottle bauble peppermint nurse | D |
| The Tumour said he'd tell the manager | E |
| The Dropsy mumbled forth his bitterest curse | D |
| But still she wailed and wailed And when we die | C |
| We shall be sainted for forgiving her | E |
Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
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