Repose In Egypt Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HIJKLMNKCOPAQBRASTAU VEE| O happy mother while the man wayworn | A |
| Sleeps by his ass and dreams of daily bread | B |
| Wakeful and heedful for thy infant care | C |
| O happy mother while thy husband sleeps | D |
| Art privileged O blessed one to see | E |
| Celestial strangers sharing in thy task | F |
| And visible angels waiting on thy child | G |
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| Take O young soul O infant heaven desired | H |
| Take and fear not the cates although of earth | I |
| Which to thy hands celestial hands extend | J |
| Take and fear not such vulgar meats of life | K |
| Thy spirit lips no more must scorn to pass | L |
| The seeming ill contaminating joys | M |
| Thy sense divine no more be loth to allow | N |
| The pleasures as the pains of our strange life | K |
| Thou art engaged self compromised to share | C |
| Look up upon thy mother's face there sits | O |
| No sad suspicion of a lurking ill | P |
| No shamed confession of a needful sin | A |
| Mistrust her not although of earth she too | Q |
| Look up the bright eyed cherubs overhead | B |
| Strew from mid air fresh flowers to crown the just | R |
| Look thy own father's servants these and thine | A |
| Who at his bidding and at thine are here | S |
| In thine own word was it not said long since | T |
| Butter and honey shall he eat and learn | A |
| The evil to refuse and choose the good | U |
| Fear not O babe divine fear not accept | V |
| O happy mother privileged to see | E |
| While the man sleeps the sacred mystery | E |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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