Insomnia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCC DDDEEE FGFEEE HEI JJKKLLMMNNEEOOPPOO QQRRSSTT UT MVMVWIXIYAZAIIHeigh ho to sleep I vainly try | A |
Since twelve I haven't closed an eye | A |
And now it's three and as I lie | A |
From Notre Dame to St Denis | B |
The bells of Paris chime to me | C |
You're young they say and strong and free | C |
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I do not turn with sighs and groans | D |
To ease my limbs to rest my bones | D |
As if my bed were stuffed with stones | D |
No peevish murmur tips my tongue | E |
Ah no for every sound upflung | E |
Says Lad you're free and strong and young | E |
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And so beneath the sheet's caress | F |
My body purrs with happiness | G |
Joy bubbles in my veins Ah yes | F |
My very blood that leaps along | E |
Is chiming in a joyous song | E |
Because I'm young and free and strong | E |
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Maybe it is the springtide I am so happy I am afraid | H |
The sense of living fills me with exultation I want to sing | E |
to dance I am dithyrambic with delight | I |
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I think the moon must be to blame | J |
It fills the room with fairy flame | J |
It paints the wall it seems to pour | K |
A dappled flood upon the floor | K |
I rise and through the window stare | L |
Ye gods how marvelously fair | L |
From Montrouge to the Martyr's Hill | M |
A silver city rapt and still | M |
Dim drowsy deeps of opal haze | N |
And spire and dome in diamond blaze | N |
The little lisping leaves of spring | E |
Like sequins softly glimmering | E |
Each roof a plaque of argent sheen | O |
A gauzy gulf the space between | O |
Each chimney top a thing of grace | P |
Where merry moonbeams prank and chase | P |
And all that sordid was and mean | O |
Just Beauty deathless and serene | O |
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O magic city of a dream | Q |
From glory unto glory gleam | Q |
And I will gaze and pity those | R |
Who on their pillows drowse and doze | R |
And as I've nothing else to do | S |
Of tea I'll make a rousing brew | S |
And coax my pipes until they croon | T |
And chant a ditty to the moon | T |
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There my tea is black and strong Inspiration comes with | U |
every sip Now for the moon | T |
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The moon peeped out behind the hill | M |
As yellow as an apricot | V |
Then up and up it climbed until | M |
Into the sky it fairly got | V |
The sky was vast and violet | W |
The poor moon seemed to faint in fright | I |
And pale it grew and paler yet | X |
Like fine old silver rinsed and bright | I |
And yet it climbed so bravely on | Y |
Until it mounted heaven high | A |
Then earthward it serenely shone | Z |
A silver sovereign of the sky | A |
A bland sultana of the night | I |
Surveying realms of lily light | I |
Robert William Service
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