The Evening-watch: A Dialogue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BB C ADADAA A EE C BFBGHH| BODY | A |
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| Farewell I go to sleep but when | B |
| The day star springs I'll wake again | B |
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| SOUL | C |
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| Go sleep in peace and when thou liest | A |
| Unnumber'd in thy dust when all this frame | D |
| Is but one dram and what thou now descriest | A |
| In sev'ral parts shall want a name | D |
| Then may his peace be with thee and each dust | A |
| Writ in his book who ne'er betray'd man's trust | A |
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| BODY | A |
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| Amen but hark ere we two stray | E |
| How many hours dost think 'till day | E |
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| SOUL | C |
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| Ah go th'art weak and sleepy Heav'n | B |
| Is a plain watch and without figures winds | F |
| All ages up who drew this circle even | B |
| He fills it days and hours are blinds | G |
| Yet this take with thee The last gasp of time | H |
| Is thy first breath and man's eternal prime | H |
Henry Vaughan
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