The Child's Last Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGDD HHIIJKDD| Thou sleepest but when wilt thou wake fair child | A |
| When the fawn awakes in the forest wild | A |
| When the lark's wing mounts with the breeze of morn | B |
| When the first rich breath of the rose is born | B |
| Lovely thou sleepest yet something lies | C |
| Too deep and still on thy soft seal'd eyes | C |
| Mournful tho' sweet is thy rest to see | D |
| When will the hour of thy rising be | D |
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| Not when the fawn wakes not when the lark | E |
| On the crimson cloud of the morn floats dark | E |
| Grief with vain passionate tears hath wet | F |
| The hair shedding gleams from thy pale brow yet | F |
| Love with sad kisses unfelt hath press'd | G |
| Thy meek dropt eyelids and quiet breast | G |
| And the glad spring calling out bird and bee | D |
| Shall colour all blossoms fair child but thee | D |
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| Thou'rt gone from us bright one that thou shouldst die | H |
| And life be left to the butterfly | H |
| Thou'rt gone as a dew drop is swept from the bough | I |
| Oh for the world where thy home is now | I |
| How may we love but in doubt and fear | J |
| How may we anchor our fond hearts here | K |
| How should e'en joy but a trembler be | D |
| Beautiful dust when we look on thee | D |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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