Babyhood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BAB ABAB C DEDE EEE EEEE C AFAF FAF AFAF G AHAI IAI AIAI| A baby shines as bright | A |
| If winter or if May be | B |
| On eyes that keep in sight | A |
| A baby | B |
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| Though dark the skies or grey be | B |
| It fills our eyes with light | A |
| If midnight or midday be | B |
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| Love hails it day and night | A |
| The sweetest thing that may be | B |
| Yet cannot praise aright | A |
| A baby | B |
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| II | C |
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| All heaven in every baby born | D |
| All absolute of earthly leaven | E |
| Reveals itself though man may scorn | D |
| All heaven | E |
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| Yet man might feel all sin forgiven | E |
| All grief appeased all pain outworn | E |
| By this one revelation given | E |
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| Soul now forget thy burdens borne | E |
| Heart be thy joys now seven times seven | E |
| Love shows in light more bright than morn | E |
| All heaven | E |
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| III | C |
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| What likeness may define and stray not | A |
| From truth's exactest way | F |
| A baby's beauty Love can say not | A |
| What likeness may | F |
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| The Mayflower loveliest held in May | F |
| Of all that shine and stay not | A |
| Laughs not in rosier disarray | F |
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| Sleek satin swansdown buds that play not | A |
| As yet with winds that play | F |
| Would fain be matched with this and may not | A |
| What likeness may | F |
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| IV | G |
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| Rose round whose bed | A |
| Dawn's cloudlets close | H |
| Earth's brightest bred | A |
| Rose | I |
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| No song love knows | I |
| May praise the head | A |
| Your curtain shows | I |
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| Ere sleep has fled | A |
| The whole child glows | I |
| One sweet live red | A |
| Rose | I |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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