To A Sleeping Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BAABBAABCDCDEE A FGGFFGGFFHFHIJ| I | A |
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| Oh 'tis a touching thing to make one weep | B |
| A tender infant with its curtain'd eye | A |
| Breathing as it would neither live nor die | A |
| With that unchanging countenance of sleep | B |
| As if its silent dream serene and deep | B |
| Had lined its slumber with a still blue sky | A |
| So that the passive cheeks unconscious lie | A |
| With no more life than roses just to keep | B |
| 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 |
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| II | A |
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| Thine eyelids slept so beauteously I deem'd | F |
| No eyes could wake so beautiful as they | G |
| Thy rosy cheeks in such still slumbers lay | G |
| I loved their peacefulness nor ever dream'd | F |
| Of dimples for those parted lips so seem'd | F |
| I never thought a smile could sweetlier play | G |
| Nor that so graceful life could chase away | G |
| Thy graceful death till those blue eyes upbeam'd | F |
| Now slumber lies in dimpled eddies drown'd | F |
| And roses bloom more rosily for joy | H |
| And odorous silence ripens into sound | F |
| And fingers move to sound All beauteous boy | H |
| How thou dost waken into smiles and prove | I |
| If not more lovely thou art more like Love | J |
Thomas Hood
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