Love And Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCB DEFDEF| Love and Sleep | A |
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| Lying asleep between the strokes of night | B |
| I saw my love lean over my sad bed | C |
| Pale as the duskiest lily's leaf or head | C |
| Smooth skinned and dark with bare throat made to bite | B |
| Too wan for blushing and too warm for white | B |
| But perfect coloured without white or red | C |
| And her lips opened amorously and said | C |
| I wist not what saving one word Delight | B |
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| And all her face was honey to my mouth | D |
| And all her body pasture to mine eyes | E |
| The long lithe arms and hotter hands than fire | F |
| The quivering flanks hair smelling of the south | D |
| The bright light feet the splendid supple thighs | E |
| And glittering eyelids of my soul's desire | F |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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