Sleeping Out: Full Moon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB ACCCCB DEEF GGFHIIHHJKJK| They sleep within | A |
| I cower to the earth I waking I only | B |
| High and cold thou dreamest O queen high dreaming and lonely | B |
| - | |
| We have slept too long who can hardly win | A |
| The white one flame and the night long crying | C |
| The viewless passers the world's low sighing | C |
| With desire with yearning | C |
| To the fire unburning | C |
| To the heatless fire to the flameless ecstasy | B |
| - | |
| Helpless I lie | D |
| And around me the feet of thy watchers tread | E |
| There is a rumour and a radiance of wings above my head | E |
| An intolerable radiance of wings | F |
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| All the earth grows fire | G |
| White lips of desire | G |
| Brushing cool on the forehead croon slumbrous things | F |
| Earth fades and the air is thrilled with ways | H |
| Dewy paths full of comfort And radiant bands | I |
| The gracious presence of friendly hands | I |
| Help the blind one the glad one who stumbles and strays | H |
| Stretching wavering hands up up through the praise | H |
| Of a myriad silver trumpets through cries | J |
| To all glory to all gladness to the infinite height | K |
| To the gracious the unmoving the mother eyes | J |
| And the laughter and the lips of light | K |
Rupert Brooke
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