By The Cradle. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC DEDF AGAG| The baby Summer lies asleep and dreaming | A |
| Dreaming and blooming like a guarded rose | B |
| And March a kindly nurse though rude of seeming | A |
| Is watching by the cradle hung with snows | B |
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| Her blowing winds but keep the rockers swinging | A |
| And deepen slumber in the shut blue eyes | C |
| And the shrill cadences of her high singing | A |
| Are to the babe but wonted lullabies | C |
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| She draws the coverlet white and tucks it trimly | D |
| She folds the little sleeper safe from harm | E |
| Or bends to lift the veil and peering inly | D |
| Makes sure it lies all undisturbed and warm | F |
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| And so she sits till in the still gray dawning | A |
| Two fairer nurses come her place to take | G |
| And smiling beaming with no word of warning | A |
| Draw off the quilt and kiss the babe awake | G |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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