The Lullaby Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDED FGHGAICI CJCJFKLKCFFFWhen the long day leans to the twilight | A |
When the Evening star climbs to the moon | B |
With a heart that is silently breaking | C |
I sit in the gloaming and croon | B |
I croon a low song for my darling | C |
My wee one my baby my own | D |
Who cradled in rosewood and velvet | E |
Sleeps out in the churchyard alone | D |
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Alone with no arms to enfold her | F |
Alone with no pillowing breast | G |
Alone with no hand on her cradle | H |
To rock her to soundlier rest | G |
But each day in the hush of the twilight | A |
Is silenced my broken heart's cry | I |
And I sit where I sat with my darling | C |
And sing her the old lullaby | I |
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Oh the dreams that come back to me mocking | C |
The sorrow that makes the days long | J |
As I sit in the twilight there rocking | C |
And singing that lullaby song | J |
But I think my wee darling rests better | F |
As the night shadows lengthen and creep | K |
Across her low bed in the churchyard | L |
If her mother's voice sings her to sleep | K |
And so with a heart that is breaking | C |
I sing the old 'Lullaby dear' | F |
That hushed her so oft into slumber | F |
O baby my own do you hear | F |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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