There's Something Quieter Than Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE DDFG DHFI JDJK| A | |
| - | |
| There's something quieter than sleep | B |
| Within this inner room | C |
| It wears a sprig upon its breast mdash | D |
| And will not tell its name | E |
| - | |
| Some touch it and some kiss it mdash | D |
| Some chafe its idle hand mdash | D |
| It has a simple gravity | F |
| I do not understand | G |
| - | |
| I would not weep if I were they mdash | D |
| How rude in one to sob | H |
| Might scare the quiet fairy | F |
| Back to her native wood | I |
| - | |
| While simple hearted neighbors | J |
| Chat of the Early dead mdash | D |
| We mdash prone to periphrasis | J |
| Remark that Birds have fled | K |
Emily Dickinson
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