The House Of Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD CECE FGGG GHGH AGAG ICIC ABAB| When we have laid aside our last endeavour | A |
| And said farewell to one or two that weep | B |
| And issued from the house of life for ever | A |
| To find a lodging in the house of sleep | B |
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| With eyes fast shut in sunless chambers lying | C |
| With folded arms unmoved upon the breast | D |
| Beyond the noise of sorrow and of crying | C |
| Beyond the dread of dreaming shall we rest | D |
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| Or shall there come at last desire of waking | C |
| To walk again on hillsides that we know | E |
| When sunrise through the cold white mist is breaking | C |
| Or in the stillness of the after glow | E |
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| Shall there be yearning for the sound of voices | F |
| The sight of faces and the touch of hands | G |
| The will that works the spirit that rejoices | G |
| The heart that feels the mind that understands | G |
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| Shall dreams and memories crowding from the distance | G |
| Shall ghosts of old ambition or of mirth | H |
| Create for us a shadow of existence | G |
| A dim reflection of the life of earth | H |
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| And being dead and powerless to recover | A |
| The substance of the show whereon we gaze | G |
| Shall we be likened to the hapless lover | A |
| Who broods upon the unreturning days | G |
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| Not so for we have known how swift to perish | I |
| Is man's delight when youth and health take wing | C |
| Until the winter leaves him nought to cherish | I |
| But recollections of a vanished spring | C |
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| Dream as we may desire of life shall never | A |
| Disturb our slumbers in the house of sleep | B |
| Yet oh to think we may not greet for ever | A |
| The one or two that when we leave them weep | B |
Robert Fuller Murray
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