Songs For Fragoletta Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFDDGGHHIIJJ KKLMML A GGNKOOPPDDQRSS A TTUVWWLLXXYYZZA2A2KK B2B2RR CCC2C2DDD2D2E2E2NK

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Fragoletta blessed oneB
What think you of the light of the sunB
Do you think the dark was bestC
Lying snug in mother's breastC
Ah I knew that sweetness tooD
Fragoletta before youD
But Fragoletta now you're bornE
You must learn to love the mornE
Love the lovely working lightF
Love the miracle of sightF
Love the thousand things to doD
Little girl I envy youD
Love the thousand things to seeG
Love your mother and love meG
And some night Fragoletta soonH
I'll take you out to see the moonH
And for the first time child of oursI
You shall think of it look on flowersI
And smell them too if you are goodJ
And hear the green leaves in the woodJ
Talking talking all togetherK
In the happy windy weatherK
And if the journey's not too farL
For little limbs so lately madeM
Limb upon limb like petals laidM
We'll go and picnic in a starL
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Blue eyes looking up at meG
I wonder what you really seeG
Lying in your cradle thereN
Fragrant as a branch of myrrhK
Helpless little hands and feetO
O so helpless O so sweetO
Tiny tongue that cannot talkP
Tiny feet that cannot walkP
Nothing of you that can doD
Aught except those eyes of blueD
How they open how they closeQ
Eyelids of the baby roseR
Open and shut so blue so wiseS
Baby eyelids baby eyesS
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That Fragoletta is the rainT
Beating upon the window paneT
But lo the golden sun appearsU
To kiss away the window's tearsV
That Fragoletta is the windW
That rattles so the window blindW
And yonder shining thing's a starL
Blue eyes you seem ten times as farL
That Fragoletta is a birdX
That speaks yet never says a wordX
Upon a cherry tree it singsY
Simple as all mysterious thingsY
Its little life to peck and pipeZ
As long as cherries ripe and ripeZ
And minister unto the needA2
Of baby birds that feed and feedA2
This Fragoletta is a flowerK
Open and fragrant for an hourK
A flower a transitory thingB2
Each petal fleeting as a wingB2
All a May morning blows and blowsR
And then for everlasting goesR
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Blue eyes against the whiteness pressedC
Of little mother's hallowed breastC
The while your trembling lips are fedC2
Look up at mother's bended headC2
All benediction over youD
blue eyes looking into blueD
Fragoletta is so smallD2
We wonder that she lives at allD2
Tiny alabaster girlE2
Hardly bigger than a pearlE2
That is why we take such careN
Lest someone runs away with herK

Richard Le Gallienne



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