The Wakeful Sleeper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH JJBKKB LLBMMB NNEJJE OOEOOE OOEPPE QQQOOQ RSBTTB| When things are holding wonted pace | A |
| In wonted paths without a trace | A |
| Or hint of neighbouring wonder | B |
| Sometimes from other realms a tone | C |
| A scent a vision swift alone | C |
| Breaks common life asunder | B |
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| Howe'er it comes whate'er its door | D |
| It makes you ponder something more | D |
| Unseen with seen things linking | E |
| To neighbours met one festive night | F |
| Was given a quaint and lovely sight | F |
| That set some of them thinking | E |
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| They stand in music's fetters bound | G |
| By a clear brook of warbled sound | G |
| A canzonet of Haydn | H |
| When the door slowly comes ajar | I |
| A little further just as far | I |
| As shows a tiny maiden | H |
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| Softly she enters her pink toes | J |
| Daintily peeping as she goes | J |
| Her long nightgown from under | B |
| The varied mien the questioning look | K |
| Were worth a picture but she took | K |
| No notice of their wonder | B |
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| They made a path and she went through | L |
| She had her little chair in view | L |
| Close by the chimney corner | B |
| She turned sat down before them all | M |
| Stately as princess at a ball | M |
| And silent as a mourner | B |
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| Then looking closer yet they spy | N |
| What mazedness hid from every eye | N |
| As ghost like she came creeping | E |
| They see that though sweet little Rose | J |
| Her settled way unerring goes | J |
| Plainly the child is sleeping | E |
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| Play on sing on the mother said | O |
| Oft music draws her from her bed | O |
| Dumb Echo she sat listening | E |
| Over her face the sweet concent | O |
| Like winds o'er placid waters went | O |
| Her cheeks like eyes were glistening | E |
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| Her hands tight clasped her bent knees hold | O |
| Like long grass drooping on the wold | O |
| Her sightless head is bending | E |
| She sits all ears and drinks her fill | P |
| Then rising goes sedate and still | P |
| On silent white feet wending | E |
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| Surely while she was listening so | Q |
| Glad thoughts in her went to and fro | Q |
| Preparing her 'gainst sorrow | Q |
| And ripening faith for that sure day | O |
| When earnest first looks out of play | O |
| And thought out of to morrow | Q |
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| She will not know from what fair skies | R |
| Troop hopes to front anxieties | S |
| In what far fields they gather | B |
| Until she knows that even in sleep | T |
| Yea in the dark of trouble deep | T |
| The child is with the Father | B |
George Macdonald
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