Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEF GG| O Sleep thou kindest minister to man | A |
| Silent distiller of the balm of rest | B |
| How wonderful thy power when naught else can | A |
| To soothe the torn and sorrow laden breast | B |
| When bleeding hearts no comforter can find | C |
| When burdened souls droop under weight of woe | D |
| When thought is torture to the troubled mind | C |
| When grief relieving tears refuse to flow | D |
| 'Tis then thou comest on soft beating wings | E |
| And sweet oblivion's peace from them is shed | F |
| But ah the old pain that the waking brings | E |
| That lives again so soon as thou art fled | F |
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| Man why should thought of death cause thee to weep | G |
| Since death be but an endless dreamless sleep | G |
James Weldon Johnson
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