Lights Out Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH JJKLLK FFMNNM| I have come to the borders of sleep | A |
| The unfathomable deep | A |
| Forest where all must lose | B |
| Their way however straight | C |
| Or winding soon or late | C |
| They cannot choose | B |
| - | |
| Many a road and track | D |
| That since the dawn's first crack | D |
| Up to the forest brink | E |
| Deceived the travellers | F |
| Suddenly now blurs | F |
| And in they sink | E |
| - | |
| Here love ends | G |
| Despair ambition ends | G |
| All pleasure and all trouble | H |
| Although most sweet or bitter | I |
| Here ends in sleep that is sweeter | I |
| Than tasks most noble | H |
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| There is not any book | J |
| Or face of dearest look | J |
| That I would not turn from now | K |
| To go into the unknown | L |
| I must enter and leave alone | L |
| I know not how | K |
| - | |
| The tall forest towers | F |
| Its cloudy foliage lowers | F |
| Ahead shelf above shelf | M |
| Its silence I hear and obey | N |
| That I may lose my way | N |
| And myself | M |
Edward Thomas
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