To A Baby Found Paddling Near The Thames Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDDEDEBBFFGGGH GHIJIKJKLLMDMDNONOAA DMDDMDDAA| Hail O Baby of the May | A |
| In the bubbling river bed | B |
| Playing where the cannon play | A |
| With the shrapnel overhead | B |
| Sparkling in and flashing out | C |
| Through the eddies and the shallows | D |
| With your feet among the trout | C |
| And your head among the swallows | D |
| While your wag tails on the daisies | D |
| Lead you in the minuet | E |
| Twinkling through the flow'ry mazes | D |
| Baby do you quite forget | E |
| That with shrapnel overhead | B |
| Other babes are put to bed | B |
| Baby may the buttercup | F |
| When you tumble pick you up | F |
| If you fall beside the willow | G |
| Lilies rise to be your pillow | G |
| In the winter should you go | G |
| Straying far without a rest | H |
| Down beneath the drifting snow | G |
| May you be the mouse's guest | H |
| May the bull frog be your Knight | I |
| And the tit your Templar true | J |
| May the fairy guide you right | I |
| Wandering through a misty land | K |
| At the crossings of the dew | J |
| With the rainbow in her hand | K |
| Should you fall from branches high | L |
| And go tumbling down the sky | L |
| May the heron in the air | M |
| Take you floating on his wings | D |
| And the cloudlets be your stair | M |
| Over palaces of kings | D |
| Riding high above the wold | N |
| Larks your sentinels shall be | O |
| Challenging with tongues of gold | N |
| Those who try to cage the free | O |
| So philosopher of May | A |
| With my blessing go your way | A |
| If you win such friends as these | D |
| You need never have a care | M |
| Cannon you may safely tease | D |
| And may juggle at your ease | D |
| With the whizzbangs in the air | M |
| Though the world be full of sadness | D |
| You may still have fun and gladness | D |
| And be happy for a day | A |
| Playing where the cannon play | A |
Herbert Asquith
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