Sleeping Together Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDB EFFGGE DHH IIIA| Sleeping together how tired you were | A |
| How warm our room how the firelight spread | B |
| On walls and ceiling and great white bed | B |
| We spoke in whispers as children do | C |
| And now it was I and then it was you | C |
| Slept a moment to wake My dear | D |
| I'm not at all sleepy one of us said | B |
| - | |
| Was it a thousand years ago | E |
| I woke in your arms you were sound asleep | F |
| And heard the pattering sound of sheep | F |
| Softly I slipped to the floor and crept | G |
| To the curtained window then while you slept | G |
| I watched the sheep pass by in the snow | E |
| - | |
| O flock of thoughts with their shepherd Fear | D |
| Shivering desolate out in the cold | H |
| That entered into my heart to fold | H |
| - | |
| A thousand years was it yesterday | I |
| When we two children of far away | I |
| Clinging close in the darkness lay | I |
| Sleeping together How tired you were | A |
Katherine Mansfield
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
About Sleeping Together
Sleeping Together is a poem by Katherine Mansfield. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.
Write your comment about Sleeping Together poem by Katherine Mansfield
Best Poems of Katherine Mansfield