Portrait Of A Baby Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDEDDCEFGGHIEEJJ KKLLMMNNOOPPJJQQRDSS DTT UUKVDDWWXXYZ| He lay within a warm soft world | A |
| Of motion Colors bloomed and fled | B |
| Maroon and turquoise saffron red | B |
| Wave upon wave that broke and whirled | A |
| To vanish in the grey green gloom | C |
| Perspectiveless and shadowy | D |
| A bulging world that had no walls | E |
| A flowing world most like the sea | D |
| Compassing all infinity | D |
| Within a shapeless ebbing room | C |
| An endless tide that swells and falls | E |
| He slept and woke and slept again | F |
| As a veil drops Time dropped away | G |
| Space grew a toy for children's play | G |
| Sleep bolted fast the gates of Sense | H |
| He lay in naked impotence | I |
| Like a drenched moth that creeps and crawls | E |
| Heavily up brown light baked walls | E |
| To fall in wreck her task undone | J |
| Yet somehow striving toward the sun | J |
| So as he slept his hands clenched tighter | K |
| Shut in the old way of the fighter | K |
| His feet curled up to grip the ground | L |
| His muscles tautened for a bound | L |
| And though he felt and felt alone | M |
| Strange brightness stirred him to the bone | M |
| Cravings to rise till deeper sleep | N |
| Buried the hope the call the leap | N |
| A wind puffed out his mind's faint spark | O |
| He was absorbed into the dark | O |
| He woke again and felt a surge | P |
| Within him a mysterious urge | P |
| That grew one hungry flame of passion | J |
| The whole world altered shape and fashion | J |
| Deceived befooled bereft and torn | Q |
| He scourged the heavens with his scorn | Q |
| Lifting a bitter voice to cry | R |
| Against the eternal treachery | D |
| Till suddenly he found the breast | S |
| And ceased and all things were at rest | S |
| The earth grew one warm languid sea | D |
| And he a wave Joy tingling crept | T |
| Throughout him He was quenched and slept | T |
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| So while the moon made broad her ring | U |
| He slept and cried and was a king | U |
| So worthily he acted o'er | K |
| The endless miracle once more | V |
| Facing immense adventures daily | D |
| He strove still onward weeping gaily | D |
| Conquered or fled from them but grew | W |
| As soil starved rough pine saplings do | W |
| Till one day crawling seemed suspect | X |
| He gripped the air and stood erect | X |
| And splendid With immortal rage | Y |
| He entered on man's heritage | Z |
Stephen Vincent Benet
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