The Awakening Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGI JKJKLBMB| Let me sleep on I would not waken yet | A |
| Or leave too soon the peaceful realm of dreams | B |
| There lulled by placid Lethe I forget | A |
| The tumult raging on Earth's roaring streams | B |
| Doubt not that later I shall surely meet | C |
| With steadfast soul Day's ceaseless sordid strife | D |
| But now I crave again that strangely sweet | C |
| Oblivion of life | D |
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| That tranquil sleep whose cooling shadow stills | E |
| The throbbing forehead and the fevered brain | F |
| Which soothes to rest all sense of present ills | E |
| Of poignant sorrow and persistent pain | F |
| O gift divine O boon beyond compare | G |
| God's benediction at the evening's close | H |
| The antidote of grief the cure of care | G |
| The kingdom of repose | I |
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| Too late the spell is broken I awake | J |
| How swift the rush of memory's turning tide | K |
| Whose ruthless waves the will's frail barriers break | J |
| And flood the cells where consciousness would hide | K |
| Alas how mad and fierce the world appears | L |
| How dark and ominous the future seems | B |
| I rise to face them yet recall through tears | M |
| The quiet land of dreams | B |
John L. Stoddard
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