Slumber Songs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCC DEFFD A BGGG DHHHD| I | A |
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| Sleep little eyes | B |
| That brim with childish tears amid thy play | C |
| Be comforted No grief of night can weigh | C |
| Against the joys that throng thy coming day | C |
| - | |
| Sleep little heart | D |
| There is no place in Slumberland for tears | E |
| Life soon enough will bring its chilling fears | F |
| And sorrows that will dim the after years | F |
| Sleep little heart | D |
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| II | A |
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| Ah little eyes | B |
| Dead blossoms of a springtime long ago | G |
| That life's storm crushed and left to lie below | G |
| The benediction of the falling snow | G |
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| Sleep little heart | D |
| That ceased so long ago its frantic beat | H |
| The years that come and go with silent feet | H |
| Have naught to tell save this that rest is sweet | H |
| Dear little heart | D |
John Mccrae
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