Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFEFGGHHIIJJ| HERE is a house so great so wide | A |
| It will take in the whole world's pride | A |
| Yet when I looked it seemed I saw | B |
| Only a vast room strewn with straw | B |
| That was threshed of moony gleams | C |
| And dew of branches and star beams | C |
| Here cheek by cheek the drowsed souls lay | D |
| Still as leverets in the hay | D |
| Merry it was to see in Sleep | E |
| How each soul had found his brother | F |
| Here a king and there a sweep | E |
| Lay hand fast and kissed each other | F |
| There a queen that had been sad | G |
| Mothered in Sleep a shepherd lad | G |
| And lovers saw the loved one's face | H |
| Star like in a lonely place | H |
| But the Lamp that gave them light | I |
| Was lovelier than the dreams of night | I |
| Angels watched lest any steal it | J |
| Christ's own heart laid here to heal it | J |
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall
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