Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B A C A A A D D D A E F G D H I J K J L| Do you give yourself to me utterly | A |
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| Body and no body flesh and no flesh | B |
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| Not as a fugitive blindly or bitterly | A |
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| But as a child might with no other wish | C |
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| Yes utterly | A |
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| Then I shall bear you down my estuary | A |
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| Carry you and ferry you to burial mysteriously | A |
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| Take you and receive you | D |
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| Consume you engulf you | D |
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| In the huge cave my belly lave you | D |
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| With huger waves continually | A |
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| And you shall cling and clamber there | E |
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| And slumber there in that dumb chamber | F |
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| Beat with my blood's beat hear my heart move | G |
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| Blindly in bones that ride above you | D |
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| Delve in my flesh dissolved and bedded | H |
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| Through viewless valves embodied so | I |
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| Till daylight the expulsion and awakening | J |
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| The riving and the driving forth | K |
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| Life with remorseless forceps beckoning | J |
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| Pangs and betrayal of harsh birth | L |
Kenneth Slessor
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