The Isle Of Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHGHIJIJ BKB LMLM NONOPQPQ RSRSPPPP TUTU QGQG VWVWTSTS XYXYZA2ZA2 WB2WB2 KC2KD2 E2EE2EPF2PF2In those dark mornings deep in June | A |
When brooding birds stir in the nest | B |
And heavy dews slip down the leaves | C |
And drop into the rose's breast | B |
I woke and looked into the east | D |
And saw no sign of coming day | E |
The pale cold morning rolled in mist | F |
Slept on the hill tops far away | E |
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My window looked into the dawn | G |
The slumbering dawn that was so nigh | H |
The shadow of the hills was drawn | G |
In waving lines against the sky | H |
But warmer hues began to tip | I |
The edges of the mountain cloud | J |
And morning's rosy cheek and lip | I |
Glowed softly through her snow pale shroud | J |
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I turned and gazed into the west | B |
The river murmured in my ear | K |
'Gone night and silence dreams and rest | B |
Another day of toil is here ' | - |
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I would I had a fairy boat | L |
With every swift bright sail unfurled | M |
To fly beyond the west and float | L |
With night into the under world | M |
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My head sank lower on my arm | N |
My eyes re closed in sleepy bliss | O |
While fancy wove her subtle charm | N |
My dream did shape itself to this | O |
Upon a shore whose sands of gold | P |
Sloped down into a silver sea | Q |
Her radiant pinions all unrolled | P |
A fairy boat did wait for me | Q |
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And Night with all her splendours pale | R |
Did walk before me on the deep | S |
The stars looked through her azure veil | R |
And hand in hand with her went Sleep | S |
Beyond the hills into the night | P |
My boat went drifting like the wind | P |
The stars paled round us and the light | P |
Died on our pathway far behind | P |
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And cloudy shapes with rippling hair | T |
That shaded eyes of dreamy calm | U |
Formed and dissolved into the air | T |
Which laved my brow with waves of balm | U |
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Dusk arms upreaching from the sea | Q |
And shadow faces seen and gone | G |
Toward an isle did beckon me | Q |
Beyond the farthest gates of dawn | G |
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We drew towards that lonely shore | V |
With still and measured motion slow | W |
I saw the hills lift evermore | V |
Their massive foreheads crowned with snow | W |
And underneath like moonlight fair | T |
I saw a hundred fathoms deep | S |
The crystal columns light as air | T |
That undergird the Isle of Sleep | S |
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And spire and dome and architrave | X |
And pictured window's rainbow gleams | Y |
Upshone from out the charmed wave | X |
Afloat upon a sea of dreams | Y |
The sea moss wove her braided locks | Z |
Along the beach in chains afar | A2 |
And lilies smiled among the rocks | Z |
Peerless and perfect as a star | A2 |
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A wood of asphodel below | W |
Uprose as still and sweet as death | B2 |
And gliding shapes moved to and fro | W |
I watched them with suspended breath | B2 |
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Lost loved ones met and clasped me here | K |
I looked into their eyes serene | C2 |
They spake to me and I did hear | K |
As I were walking in a dream | D2 |
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But even then a wind arose | E2 |
That swept the morning mists away | E |
And showed unfolding like a rose | E2 |
The bright flower of the perfect day | E |
And fading faded like a cloud | P |
The hands I clasped like wreaths of smoke | F2 |
While chanticleer crowed shrill and loud | P |
And wan and 'wildered I awoke | F2 |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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