Chantrey's Sleeping Children Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBABCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KLLKMMNNHHLLOPQQRSGG B| Look at those sleeping children softly tread | A |
| Lest thou do mar their dream and come not nigh | B |
| Till their fond mother with a kiss shall cry | B |
| 'Tis morn awake awake Ah they are dead | A |
| Yet folded in each other's arms they lie | B |
| So still oh look so still and smilingly | C |
| So breathing and so beautiful they seem | D |
| As if to die in youth were but to dream | D |
| Of spring and flowers Of flowers Yet nearer stand | E |
| There is a lily in one little hand | E |
| Broken but not faded yet | F |
| As if its cup with tears were wet | F |
| So sleeps that child not faded though in death | G |
| And seeming still to hear her sister's breath | G |
| As when she first did lay her head to rest | H |
| Gently on that sister's breast | H |
| And kissed her ere she fell asleep | I |
| The archangel's trump alone shall wake that slumber deep | I |
| Take up those flowers that fell | J |
| From the dead hand and sigh a long farewell | J |
| Your spirits rest in bliss | K |
| Yet ere with parting prayers we say | L |
| Farewell for ever to the insensate clay | L |
| Poor maid those pale lips we will kiss | K |
| Ah 'tis cold marble Artist who hast wrought | M |
| This work of nature feeling and of thought | M |
| Thine Chantrey be the fame | N |
| That joins to immortality thy name | N |
| For these sweet children that so sculptured rest | H |
| A sister's head upon a sister's breast | H |
| Age after age shall pass away | L |
| Nor shall their beauty fade their forms decay | L |
| For here is no corruption the cold worm | O |
| Can never prey upon that beauteous form | P |
| This smile of death that fades not shall engage | Q |
| The deep affections of each distant age | Q |
| Mothers till ruin the round world hath rent | R |
| Shall gaze with tears upon the monument | S |
| And fathers sigh with half suspended breath | G |
| How sweetly sleep the innocent in death | G |
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| July | B |
William Lisle Bowles
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