The Sleepers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBCCCCDDE FF DDGGGGBBE HH| The tall carnations down the garden walks | A |
| Bowed on their stalks | A |
| - | |
| Said Jock a dreams to John a nods | B |
| What are the odds | B |
| That we shall wake up here within the sun | C |
| When time is done | C |
| And pick up all the treasures one by one | C |
| Our hands let fall in sleep You have begun | C |
| To mutter in your dreams | D |
| Said John a nods to Jock a dreams | D |
| And they both slept again | E |
| - | |
| The tall carnations in the sunset glow | F |
| Burned row on row | F |
| - | |
| Said John a nods to Jock a dreams | D |
| To me it seems | D |
| A thousand years since last you stirred and spoke | G |
| And I awoke | G |
| Was that the wind then trying to provoke | G |
| His brothers in their blessed sleep They choke | G |
| Who mutter in their nods | B |
| Said Jock a dreams to John a nods | B |
| And they both slept again | E |
| - | |
| The tall carnations only heard a sigh | H |
| Of dusk go by | H |
Bliss Carman (william)
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