The Isle Of Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHGHIJIJ BKB LMLM NONOPQPQ RSRSPPPP TUTU QGQG VWVWTSTS XYXYZA2ZA2 WB2WB2 KC2KD2 E2EE2EPF2PF2

In those dark mornings deep in JuneA
When brooding birds stir in the nestB
And heavy dews slip down the leavesC
And drop into the rose's breastB
I woke and looked into the eastD
And saw no sign of coming dayE
The pale cold morning rolled in mistF
Slept on the hill tops far awayE
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My window looked into the dawnG
The slumbering dawn that was so nighH
The shadow of the hills was drawnG
In waving lines against the skyH
But warmer hues began to tipI
The edges of the mountain cloudJ
And morning's rosy cheek and lipI
Glowed softly through her snow pale shroudJ
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I turned and gazed into the westB
The river murmured in my earK
'Gone night and silence dreams and restB
Another day of toil is here '-
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I would I had a fairy boatL
With every swift bright sail unfurledM
To fly beyond the west and floatL
With night into the under worldM
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My head sank lower on my armN
My eyes re closed in sleepy blissO
While fancy wove her subtle charmN
My dream did shape itself to thisO
Upon a shore whose sands of goldP
Sloped down into a silver seaQ
Her radiant pinions all unrolledP
A fairy boat did wait for meQ
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And Night with all her splendours paleR
Did walk before me on the deepS
The stars looked through her azure veilR
And hand in hand with her went SleepS
Beyond the hills into the nightP
My boat went drifting like the windP
The stars paled round us and the lightP
Died on our pathway far behindP
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And cloudy shapes with rippling hairT
That shaded eyes of dreamy calmU
Formed and dissolved into the airT
Which laved my brow with waves of balmU
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Dusk arms upreaching from the seaQ
And shadow faces seen and goneG
Toward an isle did beckon meQ
Beyond the farthest gates of dawnG
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We drew towards that lonely shoreV
With still and measured motion slowW
I saw the hills lift evermoreV
Their massive foreheads crowned with snowW
And underneath like moonlight fairT
I saw a hundred fathoms deepS
The crystal columns light as airT
That undergird the Isle of SleepS
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And spire and dome and architraveX
And pictured window's rainbow gleamsY
Upshone from out the charmed waveX
Afloat upon a sea of dreamsY
The sea moss wove her braided locksZ
Along the beach in chains afarA2
And lilies smiled among the rocksZ
Peerless and perfect as a starA2
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A wood of asphodel belowW
Uprose as still and sweet as deathB2
And gliding shapes moved to and froW
I watched them with suspended breathB2
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Lost loved ones met and clasped me hereK
I looked into their eyes sereneC2
They spake to me and I did hearK
As I were walking in a dreamD2
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But even then a wind aroseE2
That swept the morning mists awayE
And showed unfolding like a roseE2
The bright flower of the perfect dayE
And fading faded like a cloudP
The hands I clasped like wreaths of smokeF2
While chanticleer crowed shrill and loudP
And wan and 'wildered I awokeF2

Kate Seymour Maclean



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