Song: Oh! Go To Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GBHBIJKL| Oh go to sleep my baby dear | A |
| And I will hold thee on my knee | B |
| Thy mother's in her winding sheet | C |
| And thou art all that's left to me | B |
| My hairs are white with grief and age | D |
| I've borne the weight of every ill | E |
| And I would lay me with my child | F |
| But thou art left to love me still | E |
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| Should thy false father see thy face | G |
| The tears would fill his cruel e'e | B |
| But he has scorned thy mother's woe | H |
| And he shall never look on thee | B |
| But I will rear thee up alone | I |
| And with me thou shalt aye remain | J |
| For thou wilt have thy mother's smile | K |
| And I shall see my child again | L |
Joseph Rodman Drake
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