Talking In Their Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDEED AAFGGFDHIDAAJKKJLMML| You think I am dead | A |
| The apple tree said | A |
| Because I have never a leaf to show | B |
| Because I stoop | C |
| And my branches droop | C |
| And the dull gray mosses over me grow | B |
| But I'm still alive in trunk and shoot | D |
| The buds of next May | E |
| I fold away | E |
| But I pity the withered grass at my root | D |
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| You think I am dead | A |
| The quick grass said | A |
| Because I have parted with stem and blade | F |
| But under the ground | G |
| I am safe and sound | G |
| With the snow's thick blanket over me laid | F |
| I'm all alive and ready to shoot | D |
| Should the spring of the year | H |
| Come dancing here | I |
| But I pity the flower without branch or root | D |
| You think I am dead | A |
| A soft voice said | A |
| Because not a branch or root I own | J |
| I never have died | K |
| But close I hide | K |
| In a plumy seed that the wind has sown | J |
| Patient I wait through the long winter hours | L |
| You will see me again | M |
| I shall laugh at you then | M |
| Out of the eyes of a hundred flowers | L |
Edith M. Thomas
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