To An Infant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFEEBB EECC GGEEHH| Ah cease thy tears and sobs my little life | A |
| I did but snatch away the unclasped knife | A |
| Some safer toy will soon arrest thine eye | B |
| And to quick laughter change this peevish cry | B |
| Poor stumbler on the rocky coast of woe | C |
| Tutored by pain each source of pain to know | C |
| Alike the foodful fruit and scorching fire | D |
| Awake thy eager grasp and young desire | D |
| Alike the good the ill offend thy sight | E |
| And rouse the stormy sense of shrill affright | E |
| Untaught yet wise mid all thy brief alarms | F |
| Thou closely clingest to thy mother's arms | F |
| Nestling thy little face in that fond breast | E |
| Whose anxious heavings lull thee to thy rest | E |
| Man's breathing miniature thou mak'st me sigh | B |
| A babe art thou and such a thing am I | B |
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| To anger rapid and as soon appeased | E |
| For trifles mourning and by trifles pleased | E |
| Break friendship's mirror with a tetchy blow | C |
| Yet snatch what coals of fire on pleasure's altar glow | C |
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| Oh thou that rearest with celestial aim | G |
| The future seraph in my mortal frame | G |
| Thrice holy Faith whatever thorns I meet | E |
| As on I totter with unpractised feet | E |
| Still let me stretch my arms and cling to thee | H |
| Meek nurse of souls through their long infancy | H |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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