Before Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDCEE FGHGGGII JCECKCLL| Now that you lie | A |
| In London afar | B |
| And may sleep longer | C |
| Though lonelier | C |
| For I shall not wake you | D |
| With a nightmare | C |
| Heaven plant such peace in us | E |
| As if no parting stretched between us | E |
| - | |
| The world revolves | F |
| And is evil | G |
| God's image is | H |
| Wormeaten by the devil | G |
| May the good angel | G |
| Have no rival | G |
| By our beds and we lie curled | I |
| At the sound unmoving centre of the world | I |
| - | |
| In our good nights | J |
| When we were together | C |
| We made in that stillness | E |
| Where we loved each other | C |
| A new being of both | K |
| Yet above either | C |
| So when I cannot share your sleep | L |
| Into this being half yours I creep | L |
Anne Barbara Ridler
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