blog six A nursery ryhme lewis carrol

blog six A nursery ryhme lewis carrol

February 10, 2009, 12:26 am
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A Mother's breast:
Safe refuge from her childish fears,
From childish troubles, childish tears,
Mists that enshroud her dawning years!
see how in sleep she seems to sing
A voiceless psalm--an offering
Raised, to the glory of her King
In Love: for Love is Rest.
 
A Darling's kiss:
Dearest of all the signs that fleet
From lips that lovingly repeat
Again, again, the message sweet!
Full to the brim with girlish glee,
A child, a very child is she,
Whose dream of heaven is still to be
At Home: for Home is Bliss.
 
Poem by Lewis Carroll
 
This poem is made up of two octanes.  The puncuation of the poems sort of mirror themselves.  Like in line one both lines end with a semi colin, and in lines four the lines end with an exclamation point.  Also the last lines end with a period.  Only one line in this whole poem starts with a lower case letter.  The poem ryhmes in a masculine ryhme scheme.  Childish is used in repitition in the first stanza.  In the fifth line alliteration is used with the s words.  Also the last two lines have the same semi colon punctuation.  The same lay out.  This poem does not have any enjambment, the author prob is to old to have that kind of style in their work.  There is a ceusea in line six with a dash.  A lot of other ceusas are used in this poem with commas.
 
In the first stanza when the author says that when she sleeps she sings, I think that the baby has started to cry in her sleep.  And that the new mother thinks it’s the most beuatiful sound in the world.  I’m sure she wont be thinking that in a few more weeks.  But a babies loud cry is good to a mother’s ears also because then she knows her baby is healthy, ususally babies that are quiet usually and not healthy and are sick.    I don’t know if docotors still do this or not but they used to smack that babies bottom when they were just born if they were not crying when they came out. 

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