To A Sleeping Child. I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDCDEE| Oh 'tis a touching thing to make one weep | A |
| A tender infant with its curtain'd eye | B |
| Breathing as it would neither live nor die | B |
| With that unchanging countenance of sleep | A |
| As if its silent dream serene and deep | A |
| Had lined its slumber with a still blue sky | B |
| So that the passive cheeks unconscious lie | B |
| With no more life than roses just to keep | A |
| The blushes warm and the mild odorous breath | C |
| O blossom boy so calm is thy repose | D |
| So sweet a compromise of life and death | C |
| 'Tis pity those fair buds should e'er unclose | D |
| For memory to stain their inward leaf | E |
| Tinging thy dreams with unacquainted grief | E |
Thomas Hood
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