Lullaby Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD AEAECFCG AHAHAIAI| Sleep pretty lady the night is enfolding you | A |
| Drift and so lightly on crystalline streams | B |
| Wrapped in its perfumes the darkness is holding you | A |
| Starlight bespangles the way of your dreams | B |
| Chorus the nightingales wistfully amorous | C |
| Blessedly quiet the blare of the day | D |
| All the sweet hours may your visions be glamorous | C |
| Sleep pretty lady as long as you may | D |
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| Sleep pretty lady the night shall be still for you | A |
| Silvered and silent it watches you rest | E |
| Each little breeze in its eagerness will for you | A |
| Murmur the melodies ancient and blest | E |
| So in the midnight does happiness capture us | C |
| Morning is dim with another day's tears | F |
| Give yourself sweetly to images rapturous | C |
| Sleep pretty lady a couple of years | G |
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| Sleep pretty lady the world awaits day with you | A |
| Girlish and golden the slender young moon | H |
| Grant the fond darkness its mystical way with you | A |
| Morning returns to us ever too soon | H |
| Roses unfold in their loveliness all for you | A |
| Blossom the lilies for hope of your glance | I |
| When you're awake all the men go and fall for you | A |
| Sleep pretty lady and give me a chance | I |
Dorothy Parker
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