When You Wake In Your Crib Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDFGHIJDDGIDGIGK EL MNODPQQRSTUVWQJQGEDG IKXYWhen you wake in your crib | A |
You an inch of experience | B |
Vaulted about | C |
With the wonder of darkness | D |
Wailing and striving | E |
To reach from your feebleness | D |
Something you feel | F |
Will be good to and cherish you | G |
Something you know | H |
And can rest upon blindly | I |
O then a hand | J |
Your mother's your mother's | D |
By the fall of its fingers | D |
All knowledge all power to you | G |
Out of the dreary | I |
Discouraging strangenesses | D |
Comes to and masters you | G |
Takes you and lovingly | I |
Woos you and soothes you | G |
Back as you cling to it | K |
Back to some comforting | E |
Corner of sleep | L |
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So you wake in your bed | M |
Having lived having loved | N |
But the shadows are there | O |
And the world and its kingdoms | D |
Incredibly faded | P |
And you group through the Terror | Q |
Above you and under | Q |
For the light for the warmth | R |
The assurance of life | S |
But the blasts are ice born | T |
And your heart is nigh burst | U |
With the weight of the gloom | V |
And the stress of your strangled | W |
And desperate endeavour | Q |
Sudden a hand | J |
Mother O Mother | Q |
God at His best to you | G |
Out of the roaring | E |
Impossible silences | D |
Falls on and urges you | G |
Mightily tenderly | I |
Forth as you clutch at it | K |
Forth to the infinite | X |
Peace of the Grave | Y |
William Ernest Henley
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