Pains Of Sleep, The Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEFEFFGH FEFEIIIJJFFKKFEFELL AAEEMMFFFFFEFEFFEEFF| Ere on my bed my limbs I lay | A |
| It hath not been my use to pray | A |
| With moving lips or bended knees | B |
| But silently by slow degrees | B |
| My spirit I to Love compose | C |
| In humble trust mine eye lids close | D |
| With reverential resignation | E |
| No wish conceived no thought exprest | F |
| Only a sense of supplication | E |
| A sense o'er all my soul imprest | F |
| That I am weak yet not unblest | F |
| Since in me round me every where | G |
| Eternal Strength and Wisdom are | H |
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| But yester night I prayed aloud | F |
| In anguish and in agony | E |
| Up starting from the fiendish crowd | F |
| Of shapes and thoughts that tortured me | E |
| A lurid light a trampling throng | I |
| Sense of intolerable wrong | I |
| And whom I scorned those only strong | I |
| Thirst of revenge the powerless will | J |
| Still baffled and yet burning still | J |
| Desire with loathing strangely mixed | F |
| On wild or hateful objects fixed | F |
| Fantastic passions maddening brawl | K |
| And shame and terror over all | K |
| Deeds to be hid which were not hid | F |
| Which all confused I could not know | E |
| Whether I suffered or I did | F |
| For all seemed guilt remorse or woe | E |
| My own or others still the same | L |
| Life stifling fear soul stifling shame | L |
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| So two nights passed the night's dismay | A |
| Saddened and stunned the coming day | A |
| Sleep the wide blessing seemed to me | E |
| Distemper's worst calamity | E |
| The third night when my own loud scream | M |
| Had waked me from the fiendish dream | M |
| O'ercome with sufferings strange and wild | F |
| I wept as I had been a child | F |
| And having thus by tears subdued | F |
| My anguish to a milder mood | F |
| Such punishments I said were due | F |
| To natures deepliest stained with sin | E |
| For aye entempesting anew | F |
| The unfathomable hell within | E |
| The horror of their deeds to view | F |
| To know and loathe yet wish and do | F |
| Such griefs with such men well agree | E |
| But wherefore wherefore fall on me | E |
| To be beloved is all I need | F |
| And whom I love I love indeed | F |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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