Looking Forward Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCB DEDFFE GHGIJH KLLMML NLNLLL| Sleep let me sleep for I am sick of care | A |
| Sleep let me sleep for my pain wearies me | B |
| Shut out the light thicken the heavy air | A |
| With drowsy incense let a distant stream | C |
| Of music lull me languid as a dream | C |
| Soft as the whisper of a Summer sea | B |
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| Pluck me no rose that groweth on a thorn | D |
| Nor myrtle white and cold as snow in June | E |
| Fit for a virgin on her marriage morn | D |
| But bring me poppies brimmed with sleepy death | F |
| And ivy choking what it garlandeth | F |
| And primroses that open to the moon | E |
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| Listen the music swells into a song | G |
| A simple song I loved in days of yore | H |
| The echoes take it up and up along | G |
| The hills and the wind blows it back again | I |
| Peace peace there is a memory in that strain | J |
| Of happy days that shall return no more | H |
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| Oh peace your music wakeneth old thought | K |
| But not old hope that made my life so sweet | L |
| Only the longing that must end in nought | L |
| Have patience with me friends a little while | M |
| For soon where you shall dance and sing and smile | M |
| My quickened dust may blossom at your feet | L |
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| Sweet thought that I may yet live and grow green | N |
| That leaves may yet spring from the withered root | L |
| And buds and flowers and berries half unseen | N |
| Then if you haply muse upon the past | L |
| Say this Poor child she hath her wish at last | L |
| Barren through life but in death bearing fruit | L |
Christina Rossetti
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