Version Of A Fragment Of Simonides. (translations.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON PEQEThe night winds howled the billows dashed | A |
Against the tossing chest | B |
And Dana 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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