When The Proficient Poison Of Sure Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB BAA B BA BCDBED Cwhen the proficient poison of sure sleep | A |
bereaves us of our slow tranquillities | B |
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and He without Whose favour nothing is | B |
being of men called Love upward doth leap | A |
from the mute hugeness of depriving deep | A |
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with thunder of those hungering wings of His | B |
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into the lucent and large signories | B |
i shall not smile beloved i shall not weep | A |
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when from the less than whiteness of thy face | B |
whose eyes inherit vacancy will time | C |
extract his inconsiderable doom | D |
when these thy lips beautifully embrace | B |
nothing | E |
and when thy bashful hands assume | D |
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silence beyond the mystery of rhyme | C |
E. E. Cummings
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