The Sleeping Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG IJJI| My baby slept how calm his rest | A |
| As o'er his handsome face a smile | B |
| Like that of angel flitted while | B |
| He lay so still upon my breast | A |
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| My baby slept his baby head | C |
| Lay all unkiss'd 'neath pall and shroud | D |
| I did not weep or cry aloud | D |
| I only wished I too were dead | C |
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| My baby sleeps a tiny mound | E |
| All covered by the little flowers | F |
| Woos me in all my waking hours | F |
| Down in the quiet burying ground | E |
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| And when I sleep I seem to be | G |
| With baby in another land | H |
| I take his little baby hand | H |
| He smiles and sings sweet songs to me | G |
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| Sleep on O baby while I keep | I |
| My vigils till this day be passed | J |
| Then shall I too lie down at last | J |
| And with my baby darling sleep | I |
Eugene Field
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