Rest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH| WE are so tired my heart and I | A |
| Of all things here beneath the sky | A |
| One only thing would please us best | B |
| Endless unfathomable rest | B |
| - | |
| We are so tired we ask no more | C |
| Than just to slip out by Life's door | C |
| And leave behind the noisy rout | D |
| And everlasting turn about | D |
| - | |
| Once it seemed well to run on too | E |
| With her importunate fevered crew | E |
| And snatch amid the frantic strife | F |
| Some morsel from the board of life | F |
| - | |
| But we are tired At Life's crude hands | G |
| We ask no gift she understands | G |
| But kneel to him she hates to crave | H |
| The absolution of the grave | H |
Mathilde Blind
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