Before Sleep Comes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIJI KLML NOPO QRSR TUVU| Where do you float from visions that shine ere sleep | A |
| Subdues with leaden law | B |
| The dancing fires of the brain In a shadowy land | C |
| As a king from a tower I saw | B |
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| There came startled gazelles beautifully leaping | D |
| Delicate hoofed they were gone | E |
| And the red pomegranate showered its petalled bloom | F |
| On the glittering stream alone | G |
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| I saw the dust on an Indian plain and a grove | H |
| Where pilgrims went in white | I |
| I saw the mountains throned upon purple air | J |
| Remote in sculptured light | I |
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| And I saw the broadening beams of the early sun | K |
| On the pale Pacific melt | L |
| And naked fishermen idly rocked in a boat | M |
| Their briny nets I smelt | L |
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| I saw amid Asian deserts a bed of reeds | N |
| And a heron slowly rose | O |
| To the cloud from wild reeds blown by a wind that came | P |
| From a land no man yet knows | O |
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| And I watched a tall ship gliding out of the mist | Q |
| By a snow seamed iron cape | R |
| The smoky wraiths clung round her but on she stemmed | S |
| Self willed a wing bright shape | R |
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| Then all fell dark Yet still in a trance elate | T |
| And strange to myself I lay | U |
| Here was the black soft stillness but where was I | V |
| Far away far away | U |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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