Cradle Songs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBCCCDDDEEE FFGHHHIJIKKK LLLGFGMMMHHH NCCCMMMOOOPPP NQQQRRRSSSTTT NUUUVVVNNNCCC NEEEWWWXXXNNN| To a tune of Blake's | A |
| I | - |
| Baby baby bright | B |
| Sleep can steal from sight | B |
| Little of your light | B |
| Soft as fire in dew | C |
| Still the life in you | C |
| Lights your slumber through | C |
| Four white eyelids keep | D |
| Fast the seal of sleep | D |
| Deep as love is deep | D |
| Yet though closed it lies | E |
| Love behind them spies | E |
| Heaven in two blue eyes | E |
| - | |
| II | - |
| Baby baby dear | F |
| Earth and heaven are near | F |
| Now for heaven is here | G |
| Heaven is every place | H |
| Where your flower sweet face | H |
| Fills our eyes with grace | H |
| Till your own eyes deign | I |
| Earth a glance again | J |
| Earth and heaven are twain | I |
| Now your sleep is done | K |
| Shine and show the sun | K |
| Earth and heaven are one | K |
| - | |
| III | - |
| Baby baby sweet | L |
| Love's own lips are meet | L |
| Scarce to kiss your feet | L |
| Hardly love's own ear | G |
| When your laugh crows clear | F |
| Quite deserves to hear | G |
| Hardly love's own wile | M |
| Though it please awhile | M |
| Quite deserves your smile | M |
| Baby full of grace | H |
| Bless us yet a space | H |
| Sleep will come apace | H |
| - | |
| IV | N |
| Baby baby true | C |
| Man whate'er he do | C |
| May deceive not you | C |
| Smiles whose love is guile | M |
| Worn a flattering while | M |
| Win from you no smile | M |
| One the smile alone | O |
| Out of love's heart grown | O |
| Ever wins your own | O |
| Man a dunce uncouth | P |
| Errs in age and youth | P |
| Babies know the truth | P |
| - | |
| V | N |
| Baby baby fair | Q |
| Love is fain to dare | Q |
| Bless your haughtiest air | Q |
| Baby blithe and bland | R |
| Reach but forth a hand | R |
| None may dare withstand | R |
| Love though wellnigh cowed | S |
| Yet would praise aloud | S |
| Pride so sweetly proud | S |
| No the fitting word | T |
| Even from breeze or bird | T |
| Never yet was heard | T |
| - | |
| VI | N |
| Baby baby kind | U |
| Though no word we find | U |
| Bear us yet in mind | U |
| Half a little hour | V |
| Baby bright in bower | V |
| Keep this thought aflower | V |
| Love it is I see | N |
| Here with heart and knee | N |
| Bows and worships me | N |
| What can baby do | C |
| Then for love so true | C |
| Let it worship you | C |
| - | |
| VII | N |
| Baby baby wise | E |
| Love's divine surmise | E |
| Lights your constant eyes | E |
| Day and night and day | W |
| One mute word would they | W |
| As the soul saith say | W |
| Trouble comes and goes | X |
| Wonder ebbs and flows | X |
| Love remains and glows | X |
| As the fledgeling dove | N |
| Feels the breast above | N |
| So your heart feels love | N |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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