The Sleepless Jesus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGHIHE JKJKLELE MNMNFEFE BOBONENE| 'Tis time to sleep my little boy | A |
| Why gaze thy bright eyes so | B |
| At night our children for new joy | A |
| Home to thy father go | B |
| But thou art wakeful Sleep my child | C |
| The moon and stars are gone | D |
| The wind is up and raving wild | C |
| But thou art smiling on | E |
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| My child thou hast immortal eyes | F |
| That see by their own light | G |
| They see the children's blood it lies | F |
| Red glowing through the night | G |
| Thou hast an ever open ear | H |
| For sob or cry or moan | I |
| Thou seemest not to see or hear | H |
| Thou only smilest on | E |
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| When first thou camest to the earth | J |
| All sounds of strife were still | K |
| A silence lay about thy birth | J |
| And thou didst sleep thy fill | K |
| Thou wakest now why weep'st thou not | L |
| Thy earth is woe begone | E |
| Both babes and mothers wail their lot | L |
| But still thou smilest on | E |
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| I read thy face like holy book | M |
| No hurt is pictured there | N |
| Deep in thine eyes I see the look | M |
| Of one who answers prayer | N |
| Beyond pale grief and wild uproars | F |
| Thou seest God's will well done | E |
| Low prayers through chambers' closed doors | F |
| Thou hear'st and smilest on | E |
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| Men say I will arise and go | B |
| God says I will go meet | O |
| Thou seest them gather weeping low | B |
| About the Father's feet | O |
| And each for each begin to bear | N |
| And standing lonely none | E |
| Answered O eyes ye see all prayer | N |
| Smile Son of God smile on | E |
George Macdonald
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