Sleep Flies Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACAB ADAEAE FGFGFG HIJIKI LMLMLM LNLNLN| Sleep flies me like a lover | A |
| Too eagerly pursued | B |
| Or like a bird to cover | A |
| Within some distant wood | C |
| Where thickest boughs roof over | A |
| Her secret solitude | B |
| - | |
| The nets I spread to snare her | A |
| Although with cunning wrought | D |
| Have only served to scare her | A |
| And now she'll not be caught | E |
| To those who best could spare her | A |
| She ever comes unsought | E |
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| She lights upon their pillows | F |
| She gives them pleasant dreams | G |
| Grey green with leaves of willows | F |
| And cool with sound of streams | G |
| Or big with tranquil billows | F |
| On which the starlight gleams | G |
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| No vision fair entrances | H |
| My weary open eye | I |
| No marvellous romances | J |
| Make night go swiftly by | I |
| But only feverish fancies | K |
| Beset me where I lie | I |
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| The black midnight is steeping | L |
| The hillside and the lawn | M |
| But still I lie unsleeping | L |
| With curtains backward drawn | M |
| To catch the earliest peeping | L |
| Of the desired dawn | M |
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| Perhaps when day is breaking | L |
| When birds their song begin | N |
| And worn with all night waking | L |
| I call their music din | N |
| Sweet sleep some pity taking | L |
| At last may enter in | N |
Robert Fuller Murray
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