Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBAA BDEEDFF CCCCGCC CHGGICC| In vain thou drowsy God I thee invoke | A |
| For thou who dost from fumes arise | B |
| Thou who man's soul dost overshade | C |
| With a thick cloud by vapours made | C |
| Canst have no power to shut his eyes | B |
| Or passage of his spirits to choke | A |
| Whose flame's so pure that it sends up no smoke | A |
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| Yet how do tears but from some vapours rise | B |
| Tears that bewinter all my year | D |
| The fate of Egypt I sustain | E |
| And never feel the dew of rain | E |
| From clouds which in the head appear | D |
| But all my too much moisture owe | F |
| To overflowings of the heart below | F |
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| Thou who dost men as nights to colours do | C |
| Bring to an equality | C |
| Come thou just God and equal me | C |
| Awhile to my disdainful She | C |
| In that condition let me lie | G |
| Till Love does the favour shew | C |
| Love equals all a better way than you | C |
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| Then never more shalt thou b' invok'd by me | C |
| Watchful as spirits and Gods I'll prove | H |
| Let her but grant and then will I | G |
| Thee and thy kinsman Death defy | G |
| For betwixt thee and them that love | I |
| Never will an agreement be | C |
| Thou scorn'st th' unhappy and the happy thee | C |
Abraham Cowley
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