The Awakening Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAA CDCDCD EFEFEFF| When you lie sleeping golden hair | A |
| Tossed on your pillow sea shell pink | B |
| Ears that nestle I forbear | A |
| A moment while I look and think | B |
| How you are mine and if I dare | A |
| To bend and kiss you lying there | A |
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| A Raphael in the flesh Resist | C |
| I cannot though to break your sleep | D |
| Is thoughtless of me you are kissed | C |
| And roused from slumber dreamless deep | D |
| You rub away the slumber's mist | C |
| You scold and almost weep | D |
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| It is too bad to wake you so | E |
| Just for a kiss But when awake | F |
| You sing and dance nor seem to know | E |
| You slept a sleep too deep to break | F |
| From which I roused you long ago | E |
| For nothing but my passion's sake | F |
| What though your heart should ache | F |
Edgar Lee Masters
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