The Child In The Story Goes To Bed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE CGHG IJKJ LMNM OPQP RSTS ULIL| I prythee Nurse come smooth my hair | A |
| And prythee Nurse unloose my shoe | B |
| And trimly turn my silken sheet | C |
| Upon my quilt of gentle blue | B |
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| My pillow sweet of lavender | D |
| Smooth with an amiable hand | E |
| And may the dark pass peacefully by | F |
| As in the hour glass droops the sand | E |
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| Prepare my cornered manchet sweet | C |
| And in my little crystal cup | G |
| Pour out the blithe and flowering mead | H |
| That forthwith I may sup | G |
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| Withdraw my curtains from the night | I |
| And let the crisp d crescent shine | J |
| Upon my eyelids while I sleep | K |
| And soothe me with her beams benign | J |
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| From far away there streams the singing | L |
| Of the mellifluent nightingale | M |
| Surely if goblins hear her lay | N |
| They shall not o'er my peace prevail | M |
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| Now quench my silver lamp prythee | O |
| And bid the harpers harp that tune | P |
| Fairies which haunt the meadowlands | Q |
| Sing clearly to the stars of June | P |
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| And bid them play though I in dreams | R |
| No longer heed their pining strains | S |
| For I would not to silence wake | T |
| When slumber o'er my senses wanes | S |
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| You Angels bright who me defend | U |
| Enshadow me with curv d wing | L |
| And keep me in the darksome night | I |
| Till dawn another day do bring | L |
Walter De La Mare
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