Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BAB ABAB| Sleep when a soul that her own clouds cover | A |
| Wails that sorrow should always keep | B |
| Watch nor see in the gloom above her | A |
| Sleep | B |
| - | |
| Down through darkness naked and steep | B |
| Sinks and the gifts of his grace recover | A |
| Soon the soul though her wound be deep | B |
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| God beloved of us all men's lover | A |
| All most weary that smile or weep | B |
| Feel thee afar or anear them hover | A |
| Sleep | B |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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