A Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAAB CCCDDC CCBEEB FFGHHG AABAAB| Oh night and sleep | A |
| Ye are so soft and deep | A |
| I am so weary come ye soon to me | B |
| Oh hours that creep | A |
| With so much time to weep | A |
| I am so tired can ye no swifter be | B |
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| Come night anear | C |
| I'll whisper in thine ear | C |
| What makes me so unhappy full of care | C |
| Dear night I die | D |
| For love that all men buy | D |
| With tears and know not it is dark despair | C |
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| Dear night I pray | C |
| How is it that men say | C |
| That love is sweet It is not sweet to me | B |
| For one boy's sake | E |
| A poor girl's heart must break | E |
| So sweet so true and yet it could not be | B |
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| Oh I loved well | F |
| Such love as none can tell | F |
| It was so true it could not make him know | G |
| For he was blind | H |
| All light and all unkind | H |
| Oh had he known would he have hurt me so | G |
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| Oh night and sleep | A |
| Ye are so soft and deep | A |
| I am so weary come ye soon to me | B |
| Oh hours that creep | A |
| With so much time to weep | A |
| I am so tired can ye no swifter be | B |
Archibald Lampman
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