Version Of A Fragment Of Simonides Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON PEQE| The night winds howled the billows dashed | A |
| Against the tossing chest | B |
| And Danae to her broken heart | C |
| Her slumbering infant pressed | B |
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| My little child in tears she said | D |
| To wake and weep is mine | E |
| But thou canst sleep thou dost not know | F |
| Thy mother's lot and thine | E |
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| The moon is up the moonbeams smile | G |
| They tremble on the main | H |
| But dark within my floating cell | I |
| To me they smile in vain | H |
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| Thy folded mantle wraps thee warm | J |
| Thy clustering locks are dry | K |
| Thou dost not hear the shrieking gust | L |
| Nor breakers booming high | K |
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| As o'er thy sweet unconscious face | M |
| A mournful watch I keep | N |
| I think didst thou but know thy fate | O |
| How thou wouldst also weep | N |
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| Yet dear one sleep and sleep ye winds | P |
| That vex the restless brine | E |
| When shall these eyes my babe be sealed | Q |
| As peacefully as thine | E |
William Cullen Bryant
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