I Sleep A Lot Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHI JKLMN OPQRLSTUPMM ORVRIWRGXR RRYM| I sleep a lot and read St Thomas Aquinas | A |
| Or The Death of God that's a Protestant book | B |
| To the right the bay as if molten tin | C |
| Beyond the bay city beyond the city ocean | D |
| Beyond the ocean ocean till Japan | E |
| To the left dry hills with white grass | F |
| Beyond the hills an irrigated valley where rice is grown | G |
| Beyond the valley mountains and Ponderosa pines | H |
| Beyond the mountains desert and sheep | I |
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| When I couldn't do without alcohol I drove myself on alcohol | J |
| When I couldn't do without cigarettes and coffee I drove myself | K |
| On cigarettes and coffee | L |
| I was courageous Industrious Nearly a model of virtue | M |
| But that is good for nothing | N |
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| I feel a pain | O |
| not here Even I don't know | P |
| many islands and continents | Q |
| words bazaars wooden flutes | R |
| Or too much drinking to the mirror without beauty | L |
| Though one was to be a kind of archangel | S |
| Or a Saint George over there on St George Street | T |
| Please Doctor | U |
| Not here No | P |
| Maybe it's too | M |
| Unpronounced | M |
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| Please Medicine Man I feel a pain | O |
| I always believed in spells and incantations | R |
| Sure women have only one Catholic soul | V |
| But we have two When you start to dance | R |
| You visit remote pueblos in your sleep | I |
| And even lands you have never seen | W |
| Put on I beg you charms made of feathers | R |
| Now it's time to help one of your own | G |
| I have read many books but I don't believe them | X |
| When it hurts we return to the banks of certain rivers | R |
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| I remember those crosses with chiseled suns and moons | R |
| And wizards how they worked during an outbreak of typhus | R |
| Send your second soul beyond the mountains beyond time | Y |
| Tell me what you saw I will wait | M |
Czeslaw Milosz
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