The Sleep-walkers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EF GH IE| In the town where I was born lived a woman and her daughter who | A |
| walked in their sleep | B |
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| One night while silence enfolded the world the woman and her | C |
| daughter walking yet asleep met in their mist veiled garden | D |
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| And the mother spoke and she said 'At last at last my enemy | E |
| You by whom my youth was destroyed who have built up your life | F |
| upon the ruins of mine Would I could kill you ' | - |
| - | |
| And the daughter spoke and she said 'O hateful woman selfish | G |
| and old Who stand between my freer self and me Who would have | H |
| my life an echo of your own faded life Would you were dead ' | - |
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| At that moment a cock crew and both women awoke The mother said | I |
| gently 'Is that you darling ' And the daughter answered gently | E |
| 'Yes dear ' | - |
Khalil Gibran
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