Ballade Of Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBABACAC ABABBABACAC ABABBABACAC D BECBAC| The hours are passing slow | A |
| I hear their weary tread | B |
| Clang from the tower and go | A |
| Back to their kinsfolk dead | B |
| Sleep death's twin brother dread | B |
| Why dost thou scorn me so | A |
| The wind's voice overhead | B |
| Long wakeful here I know | A |
| And music from the steep | C |
| Where waters fall and flow | A |
| Wilt thou not hear sue Sleep | C |
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| All sounds that might bestow | A |
| Rest on the fever'd bed | B |
| All slumb'rous sounds and low | A |
| Are mingled here and wed | B |
| And bring no drowsihed | B |
| Shy dreams flit to and fro | A |
| With shadowy hair dispread | B |
| With wistful eyes that glow | A |
| And silent robes that sweep | C |
| Thou wilt not hear me no | A |
| Wilt thou not hear me Sleep | C |
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| What cause hast thou to show | A |
| Of sacrifice unsped | B |
| Of all thy slaves below | A |
| I most have laboured | B |
| With service sung and said | B |
| Have cull'd such buds as blow | A |
| Soft poppies white and red | B |
| Where thy still gardens grow | A |
| And Lethe's waters weep | C |
| Why then art thou my foe | A |
| Wilt thou not hear me Sleep | C |
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| ENVOY | D |
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| Prince ere the dark be shred | B |
| By golden shafts ere now | E |
| And long the shadows creep | C |
| Lord of the wand of lead | B |
| Soft footed as the snow | A |
| Wilt thou not hear me Sleep | C |
Andrew Lang
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