Rocking The Baby Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBAB ADED F GHAH AIJI KLMLKNKM KBOBAB| I hear her rocking the baby | A |
| Her room is next to mine | B |
| And I fancy I feel the dimpled arms | C |
| That round her neck entwine | B |
| As she rocks and rocks the baby | A |
| In the room just next to mine | B |
| - | |
| I hear her rocking the baby | A |
| Each day when the twilight comes | D |
| And I know there's a world of blessing and love | E |
| In the 'baby by' she hums | D |
| - | |
| I can see the restless fingers | F |
| Playing with 'mamma's rings ' | - |
| The sweet little smiling pouting mouth | G |
| That to hers in kissing clings | H |
| As she rocks and sings to the baby | A |
| And dreams as she rocks and sings | H |
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| I hear her rocking the baby | A |
| Slower and slower now | I |
| And I hear she is leaving her good night kiss | J |
| On its eyes and cheek and brow | I |
| - | |
| From her rocking rocking rocking | K |
| I wonder would she start | L |
| Could she know through the wall between us | M |
| She is rocking on a heart | L |
| While my empty arms are aching | K |
| For a form they may not press | N |
| And my empty heart is breaking | K |
| In its desolate loneliness | M |
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| I list to the rocking rocking | K |
| In the room just next to mine | B |
| And breathe a prayer in silence | O |
| At a mother's broken shrine | B |
| For the woman who rocks the baby | A |
| In the room just next to mine | B |
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