Oh, For The Time When I Shall Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGBGB HIHJOh for the time when I shall sleep | A |
Without identity | B |
And never care how rain may steep | A |
Or snow may cover me | B |
No promised heaven these wild desires | C |
Could all or half fulful | D |
No threatened hell with quenchless fires | C |
Subdue this quenchless will | D |
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So said I and still say the same | E |
Still to my death will say | F |
Three gods within this little frame | E |
Are warring night and day | F |
Heaven could not hold them all and yet | G |
They all are held in me | B |
And must be mine till I forget | G |
My present entity | B |
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Oh for the time when in my breast | H |
Their struggles will be o'er | I |
Oh for the day when I shall rest | H |
And never suffer more | J |
Emily Bronte
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