Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGAAHHII JJKKLLJJMMGGEE| If any man with sleepless care oppressed | A |
| On many a night had risen and addressed | A |
| His hand to make him out of joy and moan | B |
| An image of sweet sleep in carven stone | B |
| Light touch by touch in weary moments planned | C |
| He would have wrought her with a patient hand | C |
| Not like her brother death with massive limb | D |
| And dreamless brow unstartled changeless dim | D |
| But very fair though fitful and afraid | E |
| More sweet and slight than any mortal maid | E |
| Her hair he would have carved a mantle smooth | F |
| Down to her tender feet to wrap and soothe | F |
| All fevers in yet barbed here and there | G |
| With many a hidden sting of restless care | G |
| Her brow most quiet thick with opiate rest | A |
| Yet watchfully lined as if some hovering guest | A |
| Of noiseless doubt were there so too her eyes | H |
| His light hand would have carved in cunning wise | H |
| Broad with all languor of the drowsy South | I |
| Most beautiful but held askance her mouth | I |
| More soft and round than any rose half spread | J |
| Yet ever twisted with some nervous dread | J |
| He would have made her with one marble foot | K |
| Frail as a snow white feather forward put | K |
| Bearing sweet medicine for all distress | L |
| Smooth languor and unstrung forgetfulness | L |
| The other held a little back for dread | J |
| One slender moonpale hand held forth to shed | J |
| Soft slumber dripping from its pearly tip | M |
| Into wide eyes the other on her lip | M |
| So in the watches of his sleepless care | G |
| The cunning artist would have wrought her fair | G |
| Shy goddess at keen seeking most afraid | E |
| Yet often coming when we last have prayed | E |
Archibald Lampman
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