Variation On The Word Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HIJKL EBCEMNOPQRSTEU VWXY| I would like to watch you sleeping | A |
| which may not happen | B |
| I would like to watch you | C |
| sleeping I would like to sleep | D |
| with you to enter | E |
| your sleep as its smooth dark wave | F |
| slides over my head | G |
| - | |
| and walk with you through that lucent | H |
| wavering forest of bluegreen leaves | I |
| with its watery sun amp three moons | J |
| towards the cave where you must descend | K |
| towards your worst fear | L |
| - | |
| I would like to give you the silver | E |
| branch the small white flower the one | B |
| word that will protect you | C |
| from the grief at the center | E |
| of your dream from the grief | M |
| at the center I would like to follow | N |
| you up the long stairway | O |
| again amp become | P |
| the boat that would row you back | Q |
| carefully a flame | R |
| in two cupped hands | S |
| to where your body lies | T |
| beside me and as you enter | E |
| it as easily as breathing in | U |
| - | |
| I would like to be the air | V |
| that inhabits you for a moment | W |
| only I would like to be that unnoticed | X |
| that necessary | Y |
Margaret Atwood
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