My Fore-elders Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDEEFF GHGHIIJKFF LMLNNMOOFF| When from the child that still is led | A |
| By hand a father's hand is gone | B |
| Or when a few year'd mother dead | A |
| Has left her children growing on | C |
| When men have left their children staid | D |
| And they again have boy and maid | D |
| O can they know as years may roll | E |
| Their children's children soul by soul | E |
| If this with souls in heaven can be | F |
| Do my fore elders know of me | F |
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| My elders' elders man and wife | G |
| Were borne full early to the tomb | H |
| With children still in childhood life | G |
| To play with butterfly or bloom | H |
| And did they see the seasons mould | I |
| Their faces on from young to old | I |
| As years might bring them turn by turn | J |
| A time to laugh or time to mourn | K |
| If this with souls in heaven can be | F |
| Do my fore elders know of me | F |
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| How fain I now would walk the floor | L |
| Within their mossy porch's bow | M |
| Or linger by their church's door | L |
| Or road that bore them to and fro | N |
| Or nook where once they build their mow | N |
| Or gateway open to their plough | M |
| Though now indeed no gate is swung | O |
| That their live hands had ever hung | O |
| If I could know that they would see | F |
| Their child's late child and know of me | F |
William Barnes
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