The Promised Lullaby Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCBBDD EFGFHIHIIDD| Can I find True Love a gift | A |
| In this dark hour to restore her | B |
| When body's vessel breaks adrift | A |
| When hope and beauty fade before her | B |
| But in this plight I cannot think | C |
| Of song or music that would grieve her | B |
| Or toys or meat or snow cooled drink | C |
| Not this way can her sadness leave her | B |
| She lies and frets in childish fever | B |
| All I can do is but to cry | D |
| Sleep sleep True Love and lullaby | D |
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| Lullaby and sleep again | E |
| Two bright eyes through the window stare | F |
| A nose is flattened on the pane | G |
| And infant fingers fumble there | F |
| Not yet not yet you lovely thing | H |
| But count and come nine weeks from now | I |
| When winter's tail has lost the sting | H |
| When buds come striking through the bough | I |
| Then here's True Love will show you how | I |
| Her name she won will hush your cry | D |
| With Sleep my baby Lullaby | D |
Robert Graves
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