The Lullaby Of A Female Convict To Her Child The Night Previous To Execution Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE DFDF FBFB| Sleep baby mine enkerchieft on my bosom | A |
| Thy cries they pierce again my bleeding breast | B |
| Sleep baby mine not long thou'lt have a mother | C |
| To lull thee fondly in her arms to rest | B |
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| Baby why dost thou keep this sad complaining | D |
| Long from mine eyes have kindly slumbers fled | E |
| Hush hush my babe the night is quickly waning | D |
| And I would fain compose my aching head | E |
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| Poor wayward wretch and who will heed thy weeping | D |
| When soon an outcast on the world thou'lt be | F |
| Who then will soothe thee when thy mother's sleeping | D |
| In her low grave of shame and infamy | F |
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| Sleep baby mine Tomorrow I must leave thee | F |
| And I would snatch an interval of rest | B |
| Sleep these last moments ere the laws bereave thee | F |
| For never more thou'lt press a mother's breast | B |
Henry Kirk White
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