The Sleeping Giant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBC DEDDE FGHFG IJIIJTHUNDER BAY LAKE SUPERIOR | A |
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When did you sink to your dreamless sleep | B |
Out there in your thunder bed | C |
Where the tempests sweep | B |
And the waters leap | B |
And the storms rage overhead | C |
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Were you lying there on your couch alone | D |
Ere Egypt and Rome were born | E |
Ere the Age of Stone | D |
Or the world had known | D |
The Man with the Crown of Thorn | E |
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The winds screech down from the open west | F |
And the thunders beat and break | G |
On the amethyst | H |
Of your rugged breast | F |
But you never arise or wake | G |
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You have locked your past and you keep the key | I |
In your heart 'neath the westing sun | J |
Where the mighty sea | I |
And its shores will be | I |
Storm swept till the world is done | J |
Emily Pauline Johnson
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Cathie Morgan Matula: I have loved this poem and the physical Sleeping Giant since I was a child.
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