Down To Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCC DEDEECC DBDBBCC AFAFFCC| November woods are bare and still | A |
| November days are clear and bright | B |
| Each noon burns up the morning's chill | A |
| The morning's snow is gone by night | B |
| Each day my steps grow slow grow light | B |
| As through the woods I reverent creep | C |
| Watching all things lie down to sleep | C |
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| I never knew before what beds | D |
| Fragrant to smell and soft to touch | E |
| The forest sifts and shapes and spreads | D |
| I never knew before how much | E |
| Of human sound there is in such | E |
| Low tones as through the forest sweep | C |
| When all wild things lie down to sleep | C |
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| Each day I find new coverlids | D |
| Tucked in and more sweet eyes shut tight | B |
| Sometimes the viewless mother bids | D |
| Her ferns kneel down full in my sight | B |
| I hear their chorus of good night | B |
| And half I smile and half I weep | C |
| Listening while they lie down to sleep | C |
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| November woods are bare and still | A |
| November days are bright and good | F |
| Life's noon burns up life's morning chill | A |
| Life's night rests feet which long have stood | F |
| Some warm soft bed in field or wood | F |
| The mother will not fail to keep | C |
| Where we can lay us down to sleep | C |
Helen Hunt Jackson
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