Now I Lay Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DD EE FF CCGGHH| When I pass from earth away | A |
| Palsied though I be and gray | A |
| May my spirit keep so young | B |
| That my failing faltering tongue | B |
| Frames that prayer so dear to me | C |
| Taught me at my mother's knee | C |
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| 'Now I lay me down to sleep ' | - |
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| Passing to Eternal rest | D |
| On the loving parent breast | D |
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| 'I pray the Lord my soul to keep ' | - |
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| From all danger safe and calm | E |
| In the hollow of His palm | E |
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| 'If I should die before I wake ' | - |
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| Drifting with a bated breath | F |
| Out of slumber into death | F |
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| 'I pray the Lord my soul to take ' | - |
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| From the body's claim set free | C |
| Sheltered in the Great to be | C |
| Simple prayer of trust and truth | G |
| Taught me in my early youth | G |
| Let my soul its beauty keep | H |
| When I lay me down to sleep | H |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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