The Old Wooden Cradle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE AGDG FHFH AIDI CJDJ| Good bye to the cradle the dear wooden cradle | A |
| The rude hand of Progress has thrust it aside | B |
| No more to its motion o er sleep s fairy ocean | C |
| Our play weary wayfarers peacefully glide | B |
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| No more by the rhythm of slow moving rocker | D |
| Their sweet dreamy fancies are fostered and fed | E |
| No more to low singing the cradle goes swinging | F |
| The child of this era is put into bed | E |
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| Good bye to the cradle the dear wooden cradle | A |
| It lent to the twilight a strange subtle charm | G |
| When bees left the clover when play time was over | D |
| How safe seemed this shelter from danger or harm | G |
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| How soft seemed the pillow how distant the ceiling | F |
| How weird were the voices that whispered around | H |
| What dreams would come flocking as rocking and rocking | F |
| We floated away into slumber profound | H |
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| Good bye to the cradle the old wooden cradle | A |
| The babe of to day does not know it by sight | I |
| When day leaves the border with system and order | D |
| The child goes to bed and we put out the light | I |
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| I bow to Progression and ask no concession | C |
| Though strewn be her pathway with wrecks of the past | J |
| So off wit old lumber that sweet ark of slumber | D |
| The old wooden cradle is ruthlessly cast | J |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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