The Christening Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AEAE FGFG HFHF IBJB KCAC LMLM CNCN| The bells chime clear | A |
| Soon will the sun behind the hills sink down | B |
| Come little Ann your baby brother dear | A |
| Lies in his christening gown | B |
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| His godparents | C |
| Are all across the fields stepped on before | D |
| And wait beneath the crumbling monuments | C |
| This side the old church door | D |
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| Your mammie dear | A |
| Leans frail and lovely on your daddie's arm | E |
| Watching her chick 'twixt happiness and fear | A |
| Lest he should come to harm | E |
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| All to be blest | F |
| Full soon in the clear heavenly water he | G |
| Sleeps on unwitting of't his little breast | F |
| Heaving so tenderly | G |
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| I carried you | H |
| My little Ann long since on this same quest | F |
| And from the painted windows a pale hue | H |
| Lit golden on your breast | F |
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| And then you woke | I |
| Chill as the holy water trickled down | B |
| And weeping cast the window a strange look | J |
| Half smile half infant frown | B |
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| I scarce could hear | K |
| The larks a singing in the green meadows | C |
| 'Twas summertide and budding far and near | A |
| The hedges thick with rose | C |
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| And now you're grown | L |
| A little girl and this same helpless mite | M |
| Is come like such another bud half blown | L |
| Out of the wintry night | M |
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| Time flies time flies | C |
| And yet bless me 'tis little changed am I | N |
| May Jesu keep from tears those infant eyes | C |
| Be love their lullaby | N |
Walter De La Mare
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