The Sleeper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGGHHI JJCCKKDDLLDDMNIIOOO PPPDDDDD PPPQQRROOSSSTTUU| At midnight in the month of June | A |
| I stand beneath the mystic moon | A |
| An opiate vapor dewy dim | B |
| Exhales from out her golden rim | B |
| And softly dripping drop by drop | C |
| Upon the quiet mountain top | C |
| Steals drowsily and musically | D |
| Into the universal valley | D |
| The rosemary nods upon the grave | E |
| The lily lolls upon the wave | E |
| Wrapping the fog about its breast | F |
| The ruin moulders into rest | F |
| Looking like Lethe see the lake | G |
| A conscious slumber seems to take | G |
| And would not for the world awake | G |
| All Beauty sleeps and lo where lies | H |
| Her casement open to the skies | H |
| Irene with her Destinies | I |
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| Oh lady bright can it be right | J |
| This window open to the night | J |
| The wanton airs from the tree top | C |
| Laughingly through the lattice drop | C |
| The bodiless airs a wizard rout | K |
| Flit through thy chamber in and out | K |
| And wave the curtain canopy | D |
| So fitfully so fearfully | D |
| Above the closed and fringed lid | L |
| 'Neath which thy slumb'ring soul lies hid | L |
| That o'er the floor and down the wall | D |
| Like ghosts the shadows rise and fall | D |
| Oh lady dear hast thou no fear | M |
| Why and what art thou dreaming here | N |
| Sure thou art come o'er far off seas | I |
| A wonder to these garden trees | I |
| Strange is thy pallor strange thy dress | O |
| Strange above all thy length of tress | O |
| And this all solemn silentness | O |
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| The lady sleeps Oh may her sleep | P |
| Which is enduring so be deep | P |
| Heaven have her in its sacred keep | P |
| This chamber changed for one more holy | D |
| This bed for one more melancholy | D |
| I pray to God that she may lie | D |
| For ever with unopened eye | D |
| While the dim sheeted ghosts go by | D |
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| My love she sleeps Oh may her sleep | P |
| As it is lasting so be deep | P |
| Soft may the worms about her creep | P |
| Far in the forest dim and old | Q |
| For her may some tall vault unfold | Q |
| Some vault that oft hath flung its black | R |
| And winged panels fluttering back | R |
| Triumphant o'er the crested palls | O |
| Of her grand family funerals | O |
| Some sepulchre remote alone | S |
| Against whose portal she hath thrown | S |
| In childhood many an idle stone | S |
| Some tomb from out whose sounding door | T |
| She ne'er shall force an echo more | T |
| Thrilling to think poor child of sin | U |
| It was the dead who groaned within | U |
Edgar Allan Poe
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