I Laid Me Down And Slept Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDDB EFFCGE AHHIIA JEEKLM NKLGGO PQQRRP| Ps | A |
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| Dark was the midnight hour | B |
| And wild with storm Nor moon nor pitying star | C |
| Gleamed through the inky darkness from afar | C |
| And Earth seemed reeling blindly to her doom | D |
| As reels some stout ship thro' the midnight gloom | D |
| What time the tempest and the waves have power | B |
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| I stood alone that night | E |
| And stretched my chill hands tow'rd the rayless sky | F |
| And heard the wrathful winds go shrieking by | F |
| And thought of one whose weary feet from far | C |
| Were journeying homeward thro' that night's wild war | G |
| Stricken with dire Consumption's deadly blight | E |
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| Oh feeble woman's hands | A |
| Outstretched in anguish thro' the enshrouding dark | H |
| Ye cannot reach that far off struggling bark | H |
| That seems so lashed and beaten by the storm | I |
| Ye cannot clasp that fever stricken form | I |
| And lead him home across the cold wet sands | A |
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| But thou canst kneel and pray | J |
| Oh burdened one Thy Father through the night | E |
| Can hear thy prayer Thy tears fall in His sight | E |
| Call e'er so faintly He thy voice can hear | K |
| Then close the door and pray thy Lord is near | L |
| Is near to thee and near to him alway | M |
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| Thus spake the voice of Love | N |
| And kneeling there in God's own gracious ear | K |
| I whispered all my anguish and my fear | L |
| Then laid me down and slept and saw no more | G |
| The night's black pall or heard the sullen roar | G |
| Of battling storms that 'mid the darkness strove | O |
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| I slept and woke at length | P |
| Strengthened sustained Another day I knew | Q |
| That he had been sustained and strengthened too | Q |
| And when at length his fevered hand I pressed | R |
| I blessed the love that so had brought him rest | R |
| And me for added sorrows added strength | P |
Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)
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