By A Child's Bed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCB DDEFGHIFFJKFF LMLFDNDOF| She breath d deep | A |
| And stepped from out life's stream | B |
| Upon the shore of sleep | A |
| And parted from the earthly noise | C |
| Leaving her world of toys | C |
| To dwell a little in a dell of dream | B |
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| Then brooding on the love I hold so free | D |
| My fond possessions come to be | D |
| Clouded with grief | E |
| These fairy kisses | F |
| This archness innocent | G |
| Sting me with sorrow and disturbed content | H |
| I think of what my portion might have been | I |
| A dearth of blisses | F |
| A famine of delights | F |
| If I had never had what now I value most | J |
| Till all I have seems something I have lost | K |
| A desert underneath the garden shows | F |
| And in a mound of cinders roots the rose | F |
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| Here then I linger by the little bed | L |
| Till all my spirit's sphere | M |
| Grows one half brightness and the other dead | L |
| One half all joy the other vague alarms | F |
| And holding each the other half in fee | D |
| Floats like the growing moon | N |
| That bears implicitly | D |
| Her lessening pearl of shadow | O |
| Clasped in the crescent silver of her arms | F |
Duncan Campbell Scott
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