To A Baby Kinswoman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFFGGHHIIJJAAKK BBIILLMMNOKKPPLLIIQQ RRSSPPJJIINNHHBBLLPP TTUUAALLVVIIDEWXYYLL LLIIZZLLNO| Love whose light thrills heaven and earth | A |
| Smiles and weeps upon thy birth | A |
| Child whose mother's love lit eyes | B |
| Watch thee but from Paradise | C |
| Sweetest sight that earth can give | D |
| Sweetest light of eyes that live | E |
| Ours must needs for hope withdrawn | F |
| Hail with tears thy soft spring dawn | F |
| Light of hope whose star hath set | G |
| Light of love whose sun lives yet | G |
| Holier happier heavenlier love | H |
| Breathes about thee burns above | H |
| Surely sweet than ours can be | I |
| Shed from eyes we may not see | I |
| Though thine own may see them shine | J |
| Night and day perchance on thine | J |
| Sun and moon that lighten earth | A |
| Seem not fit to bless thy birth | A |
| Scarce the very stars we know | K |
| Here seem bright enough to show | K |
| Whence in unimagined skies | B |
| Glows the vigil of such eyes | B |
| Theirs whose heart is as a sea | I |
| Swoln with sorrowing love of thee | I |
| Fain would share with thine the sight | L |
| Seen alone of babes aright | L |
| Watched of eyes more sweet than flowers | M |
| Sleeping or awake but ours | M |
| Can but deem or dream or guess | N |
| Thee not wholly motherless | O |
| Might they see or might they know | K |
| What nor faith nor hope may show | K |
| We whose hearts yearn toward thee now | P |
| Then were blest and wise as thou | P |
| Had we half thy knowledge had | L |
| Love such wisdom grief were glad | L |
| Surely lit by grace of thee | I |
| Life were sweet as death may be | I |
| Now the law that lies on men | Q |
| Bids us mourn our dead but then | Q |
| Heaven and life and earth and death | R |
| Quickened as by God's own breath | R |
| All were turned from sorrow and strife | S |
| Earth and death were heaven and life | S |
| All too far are then and now | P |
| Sundered none may be as thou | P |
| Yet this grace is ours a sign | J |
| Of that goodlier grace of thine | J |
| Sweet and thine alone to see | I |
| Heaven and heaven's own love in thee | I |
| Bless them then whose eyes caress | N |
| Thee as only thou canst bless | N |
| Comfort faith assurance love | H |
| Shine around us brood above | H |
| Fear grows hope and hope grows wise | B |
| Thrilled and lit by children's eyes | B |
| Yet in ours the tears unshed | L |
| Child for hope that death leaves dead | L |
| Needs must burn and tremble thou | P |
| Knowest not seest not why nor how | P |
| More than we know whence or why | T |
| Comes on babes that laugh and lie | T |
| Half asleep in sweet lipped scorn | U |
| Light of smiles outlightening morn | U |
| Whence enkindled as is earth | A |
| By the dawn's less radiant birth | A |
| All the body soft and sweet | L |
| Smiles on us from face to feet | L |
| When the rose red hands would fain | V |
| Reach the rose red feet in vain | V |
| Eyes and hands that worship thee | I |
| Watch and tend adore and see | I |
| All these heavenly sights and give | D |
| Thanks to see and love and live | E |
| Yet of all that hold thee dear | W |
| Sweet the dearest smiles not here | X |
| Thine alone is now the grace | Y |
| Haply still to see her face | Y |
| Thine thine only now the sight | L |
| Whence we dream thine own takes light | L |
| Yet though faith and hope live blind | L |
| Yet they live in heart and mind | L |
| Strong and keen as truth may be | I |
| Yet though blind as grief were we | I |
| Inly for a weeping while | Z |
| Sorrow's self before thy smile | Z |
| Smiles and softens knowing that yet | L |
| Far from us though heaven be set | L |
| Love bowed down for thee to bless | N |
| Dares not call thee motherless | O |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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