The Cradle Tomb In Westminster Abbey. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB AAAA CDED AFAF GHGH AIAI AAAA CJCK GLGL MNMN| A little rudely sculptured bed | A |
| With shadowing folds of marble lace | B |
| And quilt of marble primly spread | A |
| And folded round a baby's face | B |
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| Smoothly the mimic coverlet | A |
| With royal blazonries bedight | A |
| Hangs as by tender fingers set | A |
| And straightened for the last good night | A |
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| And traced upon the pillowing stone | C |
| A dent is seen as if to bless | D |
| The quiet sleep some grieving one | E |
| Had leaned and left a soft impress | D |
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| It seems no more than yesterday | A |
| Since the sad mother down the stair | F |
| And down the long aisle stole away | A |
| And left her darling sleeping there | F |
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| But dust upon the cradle lies | G |
| And those who prized the baby so | H |
| And laid her down to rest with sighs | G |
| Were turned to dust long years ago | H |
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| Above the peaceful pillowed head | A |
| Three centuries brood and strangers peep | I |
| And wonder at the carven bed | A |
| But not unwept the baby's sleep | I |
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| For wistful mother eyes are blurred | A |
| With sudden mists as lingerers stay | A |
| And the old dusts are roused and stirred | A |
| By the warm tear drops of to day | A |
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| Soft furtive hands caress the stone | C |
| And hearts o'erleaping place and age | J |
| Melt into memories and own | C |
| A thrill of common parentage | K |
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| Men die but sorrow never dies | G |
| The crowding years divide in vain | L |
| And the wide world is knit with ties | G |
| Of common brotherhood in pain | L |
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| Of common share in grief and loss | M |
| And heritage in the immortal bloom | N |
| Of Love which flowering round its cross | M |
| Made beautiful a baby's tomb | N |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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