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 |
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| 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 |
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| O flock of thoughts with their shepherd Fear | D |
| Shivering desolate out in the cold | H |
| That entered into my heart to fold | H |
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| 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
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