Lullaby Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFCGHF IJKLMHKNOH HPQRGSQTUV WXYXZA2YB2PA| Lay your sleeping head my love | A |
| Human on my faithless arm | B |
| Time and fevers burn away | C |
| Individual beauty from | D |
| Thoughtful children and the grave | E |
| Proves the child ephemeral | F |
| But in my arms till break of day | C |
| Let the living creature lie | G |
| Mortal guility but to me | H |
| The entirely beautiful | F |
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| Soul and body have no bounds | I |
| To lovers as they lie upon | J |
| Her tolerant enchanted slope | K |
| In their ordinary swoon | L |
| Grave the vision Venus sends | M |
| Of supernatural sympathy | H |
| Universal love and hope | K |
| While abstract insight wakes | N |
| Among the glaciers and the rocks | O |
| The hermit's sensual ecstasy | H |
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| Certainty fidelity | H |
| On the stroke of midnight pass | P |
| Like vibrations of a bell | Q |
| And fashionable madmen raise | R |
| Their pedantic boring cry | G |
| Every farthing of the cost | S |
| All the dreaded cards foretell | Q |
| Shall be paid but from this night | T |
| Not a whisper not a thought | U |
| Not a kiss nor look be lost | V |
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| Beauty midnight vision dies | W |
| Let the winds of dawn that blow | X |
| Softly round your dreaming head | Y |
| Such a day of sweetness show | X |
| Eye and knocking heart may bless | Z |
| Find your mortal world enough | A2 |
| Noons of dryness see you fed | Y |
| By the involuntary powers | B2 |
| Nights of insult let you pass | P |
| Watched by every human love | A |
W. H. Auden
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