Love's Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE FGFGHIHI JKJKGLGL MNONDGDG GAGA| Vers de Soci t | A |
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| We'll cover Love with roses | B |
| And sweet sleep he shall take | C |
| None but a fool supposes | B |
| Love always keeps awake | C |
| I've known loves without number | D |
| True loves were they and tried | E |
| And just for want of slumber | D |
| They pined away and died | E |
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| Our love was bright and cheerful | F |
| A little while agone | G |
| Now he is pale and tearful | F |
| And yes I've seen him yawn | G |
| So tired is he of kisses | H |
| That he can only weep | I |
| The one dear thing he misses | H |
| And longs for now is sleep | I |
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| We could not let him leave us | J |
| One time he was so dear | K |
| But now it would not grieve us | J |
| If he slept half a year | K |
| For he has had his season | G |
| Like the lily and the rose | L |
| And it but stands to reason | G |
| That he should want repose | L |
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| We prized the smiling Cupid | M |
| Who made our days so bright | N |
| But he has grown so stupid | O |
| We gladly say good night | N |
| And if he wakens tender | D |
| And fond and fair as when | G |
| He filled our lives with splendor | D |
| We'll take him back again | G |
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| And should he never waken | G |
| As that perchance may be | A |
| We will not weep forsaken | G |
| But sing Love tra la lee | A |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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