Wakefulness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDBCCB EEBCCB FFBCCB| Drifting idly drifting where thought's varied streams | A |
| Meet at last and mingle in the realm of dreams | A |
| Gladly would I join them in oblivion's deep | B |
| Sleep so dear to me | C |
| Sleep come near to me | C |
| Sleep sweet sleep | B |
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| Toward the night's Nirvana groping for the way | D |
| Striving ever striving to forget the day | D |
| Waves of dreamless slumber o'er my spirit creep | B |
| Sleep so dear to me | C |
| Sleep come near to me | C |
| Sleep sweet sleep | B |
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| By the stream of Lethe fettered to the brink | E |
| Longing for the breaking of the last frail link | E |
| Eager for its billows o'er my mind to sweep | B |
| Sleep so dear to me | C |
| Sleep come near to me | C |
| Sleep sweet sleep | B |
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| Waiting ever waiting for thy soothing call | F |
| And the welcome darkness that envelops all | F |
| If no more to waken then no more to weep | B |
| Sleep so dear to me | C |
| Sleep come near to me | C |
| Sleep sweet sleep | B |
John L. Stoddard
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