To A Sleeping Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFHGEG IJEJKLML HNENHOPOQQ RAOAHLHMHH| Sleep on Sleep on beguiling | A |
| The hours with happy rest | B |
| Sleep by that dreamy smiling | A |
| I know that thou art blest | B |
| Thy mother over thee hath leant | C |
| To guard thee from annoy | D |
| And the angel of the innocent | C |
| Was in that dream my boy | D |
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| The tinting of the summer rose | E |
| Is on that pillowed cheek | F |
| And the quietness of summer thought | G |
| Has made thy forehead meek | F |
| And yet that little ample brow | H |
| And arching lip are fraught | G |
| With pledges of high manliness | E |
| And promises of thought | G |
| - | |
| Thy polished limbs are rounded out | I |
| As is the Autumn fruit | J |
| And full and reedy is the voice | E |
| That slumber hath made mute | J |
| And looking on thy perfect form | K |
| Hearing thy pleasant tone | L |
| I almost weep for joy my son | M |
| To know thee for my own | L |
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| Sleep on thine eye seems looking thro' | H |
| The half transparent lid | N |
| As if its free and radiant glance | E |
| Impatiently were hid | N |
| But ever as I kneel to pray | H |
| And in my fulness weep | O |
| I thank the Giver of my child | P |
| For that pure gift of sleep | O |
| I half believe they take thee then | Q |
| Back to a better world again | Q |
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| And so sleep on If thou hast worn | R |
| An angel's shining wing | A |
| The watch that I have loved to keep | O |
| Hath been a blessed thing | A |
| And if thy spirit hath been here | H |
| With spotless thoughts alone | L |
| A mother's silent ministry | H |
| Is still a holy one | M |
| And I will pray that there may be | H |
| A shining wing in wait for thee | H |
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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