The City Of Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEECD AFAFGDEECD AHAHIDEECD| Over the edge of the purple down | A |
| Where the single lamplight gleams | B |
| Know ye the road to the Merciful Town | A |
| That is hard by the Sea of Dreams | B |
| Where the poor may lay their wrongs away | C |
| And the sick may forget to weep | D |
| But we pity us Oh pity us | E |
| We wakeful ah pity us | E |
| We must go back with Policeman Day | C |
| Back from the City of Sleep | D |
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| Weary they turn from the scroll and crown | A |
| Fetter and prayer and plough | F |
| They that go up to the Merciful Town | A |
| For her gates are closing now | F |
| It is their right in the Baths of Night | G |
| Body and soul to steep | D |
| But we pity us ah pity us | E |
| We wakeful oh pity us | E |
| We must go back with Policeman Day | C |
| Back from the City of Sleep | D |
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| Over the edge of the purple down | A |
| Ere the tender dreams begin | H |
| Look we may look at the Merciful Town | A |
| But we may not enter in | H |
| Outcasts all from her guarded wall | I |
| Back to our watch we creep | D |
| We pity us ah pity us | E |
| We wakeful oh pity us | E |
| We that go back with Policeman Day | C |
| Back from the City of Sleep | D |
Rudyard Kipling
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