Love Lies Sleeping Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFG HIEJ KLMN OGPQ RAST UVWS XYZA2 B2C2D2E2 F2HG2H2 I2DJ2K2 L2UM2N2 JO2JP2 E2Q2R2S2 HT2KWfrom cinder star to star | A |
coupling the ends of streets | B |
to trains of light | C |
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now draw us into daylight in our beds | D |
and clear away what presses on the brain | E |
put out the neon shapes | F |
that float and swell and glare | G |
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down the gray avenue between the eyes | H |
in pinks and yellows letters and twitching signs | I |
Hang over moons wane wane | E |
From the window I see | J |
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an immense city carefully revealed | K |
made delicate by over workmanship | L |
detail upon detail | M |
cornice upon facade | N |
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reaching up so languidly up into | O |
a weak white sky it seems to waver there | G |
Where it has slowly grown | P |
in skies of water glass | Q |
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from fused beads of iron and copper crystals | R |
the little chemical garden in a jar | A |
trembles and stands again | S |
pale blue blue green and brick | T |
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The sparrows hurriedly begin their play | U |
Then in the West Boom and a cloud of smoke | V |
Boom and the exploding ball | W |
of blossom blooms again | S |
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And all the employees who work in a plants | X |
where such a sound says Danger or once said Death | Y |
turn in their sleep and feel | Z |
the short hairs bristling | A2 |
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on backs of necks The cloud of smoke moves off | B2 |
A shirt is taken of a threadlike clothes line | C2 |
Along the street below | D2 |
the water wagon comes | E2 |
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throwing its hissing snowy fan across | F2 |
peelings and newspapers The water dries | H |
light dry dark wet the pattern | G2 |
of the cool watermelon | H2 |
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I hear the day springs of the morning strike | I2 |
from stony walls and halls and iron beds | D |
scattered or grouped cascades | J2 |
alarms for the expected | K2 |
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queer cupids of all persons getting up | L2 |
whose evening meal they will prepare all day | U |
you will dine well | M2 |
on his heart on his and his | N2 |
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so send them about your business affectionately | J |
dragging in the streets their unique loves | O2 |
Scourge them with roses only | J |
be light as helium | P2 |
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for always to one or several morning comes | E2 |
whose head has fallen over the edge of his bed | Q2 |
whose face is turned | R2 |
so that the image of | S2 |
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the city grows down into his open eyes | H |
inverted and distorted No I mean | T2 |
distorted and revealed | K |
if he sees it at all | W |
Elizabeth Bishop
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