Lines: The Cold Earth Slept Below Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCAAD EFGGEEF HIJJHHI KLMMNNL| The cold earth slept below | A |
| Above the cold sky shone | B |
| And all around | C |
| With a chilling sound | C |
| From caves of ice and fields of snow | A |
| The breath of night like death did flow | A |
| Beneath the sinking moon | D |
| - | |
| The wintry hedge was black | E |
| The green grass was not seen | F |
| The birds did rest | G |
| On the bare thorn's breast | G |
| Whose roots beside the pathway track | E |
| Had bound their folds o'er many a crack | E |
| Which the frost had made between | F |
| - | |
| Thine eyes glow'd in the glare | H |
| Of the moon's dying light | I |
| As a fen fire's beam | J |
| On a sluggish stream | J |
| Gleams dimly so the moon shone there | H |
| And it yellow'd the strings of thy tangled hair | H |
| That shook in the wind of night | I |
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| The moon made thy lips pale belov e d | K |
| The wind made thy bosom chill | L |
| The night did shed | M |
| On thy dear head | M |
| Its frozen dew and thou didst lie | N |
| Where the bitter breath of the naked sky | N |
| Might visit thee at will | L |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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