The River Of Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EFEEF FDFFD GDGGD ADAAD| There are curious isles in the River of Sleep | A |
| Curious isles without number | B |
| We'll visit them all as we leisurely creep | A |
| Down the winding stream whose current is deep | A |
| In our beautiful barge of Slumber | B |
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| The very first isle in this wonderful stream | C |
| Quite close to the shore is lying | D |
| And after a supper of cakes and cream | C |
| We come to the Night Mare Isle with a scream | C |
| And hurry away from it crying | D |
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| And next is the Island of Lullaby | E |
| And every one there rejoices | F |
| The winds are only a perfumed sigh | E |
| And the birds that sing in the treetops try | E |
| To imitate Mothers' voices | F |
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| A little beyond is the Isle of Dreams | F |
| Oh that is the place to be straying | D |
| Everything there is just as it seems | F |
| Dolls are real and sunshine gleams | F |
| And no one calls us from playing | D |
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| And then we come to the drollest isle | G |
| And the funniest sounds come pouring | D |
| Down from its borderlands once in a while | G |
| And we lean o'er our barge and listen and smile | G |
| For that is the Isle of Snoring | D |
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| And the very last isle in the River of Sleep | A |
| Is the sunshiny Isle of Waking | D |
| We see it first with our eyes a peep | A |
| And we give a yawn then away we leap | A |
| The barge of Slumber forsaking | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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