Lullaby Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDBEEB FFBGGB CCBHHB| Now the day is done | A |
| Now the shepherd sun | A |
| Drives his white flocks from the sky | B |
| Now the flowers rest | C |
| On their mother's breast | C |
| Hushed by her low lullaby | B |
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| Now the glowworms glance | D |
| Now the fireflies dance | D |
| Under fern boughs green and high | B |
| And the western breeze | E |
| To the forest trees | E |
| Chants a tuneful lullaby | B |
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| Now 'mid shadows deep | F |
| Falls blessed sleep | F |
| Like dew from the summer sky | B |
| And the whole earth dreams | G |
| In the moon's soft beams | G |
| While night breathes a lullaby | B |
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| Now birdlings rest | C |
| In your wind rocked nest | C |
| Unscared by the owl's shrill cry | B |
| For with folded wings | H |
| Little Brier swings | H |
| And singeth your lullaby | B |
Louisa May Alcott
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