The Conqueror's Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAAA CDDCEE FBBFGH IBBIJJ KDDKAA CDDCLE| Sleep 'midst thy banners furl'd | A |
| Yes thou art there upon thy buckler lying | B |
| With the soft wind unfelt around thee sighing | B |
| Thou chief of hosts whose trumpet shakes the world | A |
| Sleep while the babe sleeps on its mother's breast | A |
| Oh strong is night for thou too art at rest | A |
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| Stillness hath smooth'd thy brow | C |
| And now might love keep timid vigils by thee | D |
| Now might the foe with stealthy foot draw nigh thee | D |
| Alike unconscious and defenceless thou | C |
| Tread lightly watchers now the field is won | E |
| Break not the rest of nature's weary son | E |
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| Perchance some lovely dream | F |
| Back from the stormy fight thy soul is bearing | B |
| To the green places of thy boyish daring | B |
| And all the windings of thy native stream | F |
| Why this were joy upon the tented plain | G |
| Dream on thou Conqueror be a child again | H |
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| But thou wilt wake at morn | I |
| With thy strong passions to the conflict leaping | B |
| And thy dark troubled thoughts all earth o'ersweeping | B |
| So wilt thou rise oh thou of woman born | I |
| And put thy terrors on till none may dare | J |
| Look upon thee the tired one slumbering there | J |
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| Why so the peasant sleeps | K |
| Beneath his vine and man must kneel before thee | D |
| And for his birthright vainly still implore thee | D |
| Shalt thou be stay'd because thy brother weeps | K |
| Wake and forget that 'midst a dreaming world | A |
| Thou hast lain thus with all thy banners furl'd | A |
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| Forget that thou ev'n thou | C |
| Hast feebly shiver'd when the wind pass'd o'er thee | D |
| And sunk to rest upon the earth which bore thee | D |
| And felt the night dew chill thy fever'd brow | C |
| Wake with the trumpet with the spear press on | L |
| Yet shall the dust take home its mortal son | E |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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