Sleep's Treachery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBC DEFDEF| As the grey twilight tiptoed down the deep | A |
| And shadowy valley to the day's dark end | B |
| She whom I thought my ever faithful friend | B |
| Fair browed calm eyed and mother bosomed Sleep | A |
| Met me with smiles 'Poor longing heart I keep | A |
| Sweet joy for you ' she murmured 'I will send | B |
| One whom you love with your own soul to blend | B |
| In visions as the night hours onward creep ' | C |
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| I trusted her and watched by starry beams | D |
| I slumbered soundly free from all alarms | E |
| Then not my love but one long banished came | F |
| Led by false Sleep down secret stairs of dreams | D |
| And clasped me unresisting in fond arms | E |
| Oh treacherous sleep to sell me to such shame | F |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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