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