Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCB DEFFE GHIIH JDKKD LMIIM NOPPO QIRRI JSTTS QEUUE| Oh is it Death that comes | A |
| To have a foretaste of the whole | B |
| To night the planets and the stars | C |
| Will glimmer through my window bars | C |
| But will not shine upon my soul | B |
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| For I shall lie as dead | D |
| Though yet I am above the ground | E |
| All passionless with scarce a breath | F |
| With hands of rest and eyes of death | F |
| I shall be carried swiftly round | E |
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| Or if my life should break | G |
| The idle night with doubtful gleams | H |
| Through mossy arches will I go | I |
| Through arches ruinous and low | I |
| And chase the true and false in dreams | H |
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| Why should I fall asleep | J |
| When I am still upon my bed | D |
| The moon will shine the winds will rise | K |
| And all around and through the skies | K |
| The light clouds travel o'er my head | D |
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| O busy busy things | L |
| Ye mock me with your ceaseless life | M |
| For all the hidden springs will flow | I |
| And all the blades of grass will grow | I |
| When I have neither peace nor strife | M |
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| And all the long night through | N |
| The restless streams will hurry by | O |
| And round the lands with endless roar | P |
| The white waves fall upon the shore | P |
| And bit by bit devour the dry | O |
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| Even thus but silently | Q |
| Eternity thy tide shall flow | I |
| And side by side with every star | R |
| Thy long drawn swell shall bear me far | R |
| An idle boat with none to row | I |
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| My senses fail with sleep | J |
| My heart beats thick the night is noon | S |
| And faintly through its misty folds | T |
| I hear a drowsy clock that holds | T |
| Its converse with the waning moon | S |
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| Oh solemn mystery | Q |
| That I should be so closely bound | E |
| With neither terror nor constraint | U |
| Without a murmur of complaint | U |
| And lose myself upon such ground | E |
George Macdonald
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