The Sleeper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDF GHFH IHIH JKJK LMLM| She sleeps and dreams one milk white lawny arm | A |
| Pillowing her heavy hair as might cold Night | B |
| Meeting her sister Day with glory warm | C |
| Subside in languor on her bosom's white | B |
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| The naked other on the damask cloth | D |
| White smooth and light as the light thistle down | E |
| Or the pink fairy fluffy evening moth | D |
| On June drunk beds of roses red lies thrown | F |
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| And one sweet cheek kissed with the enamored moon | G |
| Grown pale with anger at the liberty | H |
| While dusk in darkness at the favor shown | F |
| The pouting other frowns still envity | H |
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| Hangs fall'n in folds the rich dark covering | I |
| With fretfulness thrust partly from her breast | H |
| As through storm broken clouds the moon might spring | I |
| From this the orb of one pure bosom prest | H |
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| She sleeps and where the silent moonbeams sink | J |
| Thro' diamond panes soft as a ghost of snow | K |
| In wide white jets the lion fur seems to drink | J |
| With tawny jaws its wasted winey glow | K |
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| Light lidded sleep and holy dreams to her | L |
| Unborn of feverish sorrow or of care | M |
| Soft as the gust that makes the arras stir | L |
| Tangling gold moonbeams in her fragrant hair | M |
Madison Julius Cawein
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