Version Of A Fragment Of Simonides. (translations.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON PEQE

The night winds howled the billows dashedA
Against the tossing chestB
And Dana to her broken heartC
Her slumbering infant pressedB
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My little child in tears she saidD
To wake and weep is mineE
But thou canst sleep thou dost not knowF
Thy mother's lot and thineE
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The moon is up the moonbeams smileG
They tremble on the mainH
But dark within my floating cellI
To me they smile in vainH
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Thy folded mantle wraps thee warmJ
Thy clustering locks are dryK
Thou dost not hear the shrieking gustL
Nor breakers booming highK
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As o'er thy sweet unconscious faceM
A mournful watch I keepN
I think didst thou but know thy fateO
How thou wouldst also weepN
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Yet dear one sleep and sleep ye windsP
That vex the restless brineE
When shall these eyes my babe be sealedQ
As peacefully as thineE

William Cullen Bryant



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