To A Child During Sickness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDCD DEDEFDFD DGDGDHDH IJIJKLKL MNMOPKPK QRQRSTST| boy | A |
| And balmy rest about thee | B |
| Smooths off the day's annoy | A |
| I sit me down and think | C |
| Of all thy winning ways | D |
| Yet almost wish with sudden shrink | C |
| That I had less to praise | D |
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| Thy sidelong pillowed meekness | D |
| Thy thanks to all that aid | E |
| Thy heart in pain and weakness | D |
| Of fancied faults afraid | E |
| The little trembling hand | F |
| That wipes thy quiet tears | D |
| These these are things that may demand | F |
| Dread memories for years | D |
| - | |
| Sorrows I 've had severe ones | D |
| I will not think of now | G |
| And calmly midst my dear ones | D |
| Have wasted with dry brow | G |
| But when thy fingers press | D |
| And pat my stooping head | H |
| I cannot bear the gentleness | D |
| The tears are in their bed | H |
| - | |
| Ah first born of thy mother | I |
| When life and hope were new | J |
| Kind playmate of thy brother | I |
| Thy sister father too | J |
| My light where'er I go | K |
| My bird when prison bound | L |
| My hand in hand companion No | K |
| My prayers shall hold thee round | L |
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| To say He has departed | M |
| His voice his face is gone | N |
| To feel impatient hearted | M |
| Yet feel we must bear on | O |
| Ah I could not endure | P |
| To whisper of such woe | K |
| Unless I felt this sleep insure | P |
| That it will not be so | K |
| - | |
| Yes still he 's fixed and sleeping | Q |
| This silence too the while | R |
| Its very hush and creeping | Q |
| Seem whispering us a smile | R |
| Something divine and dim | S |
| Seems going by one's ear | T |
| Like parting wings of cherubim | S |
| Who say We 've finished here | T |
James Henry Leigh Hunt
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