An Empty Crib Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC ABAB DEDE| Beside a crib that holds a baby s stocking | A |
| A tattered picture book a broken toy | B |
| A sleeping mother dreams that she is rocking | A |
| Her fair haired cherub boy | B |
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| Upon the cradle s side her light touch keeping | A |
| She gently rocks it crooning low a song | C |
| And smiles to think her little one is sleeping | A |
| So peacefully and long | C |
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| Step light breathe low break not her rapturous dreaming | A |
| Wake not the sleeper from her trance of joy | B |
| For never more save in sweet slumber seeming | A |
| Will she watch o er her little boy | B |
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| God pity her when from her dream Elysian | D |
| She wakes to see the empty crib and weep | E |
| Knowing her joy was but a sleeper s vision | D |
| Tread lightly let her sleep | E |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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