Cleis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGDHF IJKDLFFEMN OPQRD ST| Sleep darling | A |
| I have a small | B |
| daughter called | C |
| Cleis who is | D |
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| like a golden | E |
| flower | F |
| I wouldn't | G |
| take all Croesus' | D |
| kingdom with love | H |
| thrown in for her | F |
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| Don't ask me what to wear | I |
| I have no embroidered | J |
| headband from Sardis to | K |
| give you Cleis such as | D |
| I wore | L |
| and my mother | F |
| always said that in her | F |
| day a purple ribbon | E |
| looped in the hair was thought | M |
| to be high style indeed | N |
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| but we were dark | O |
| a girl | P |
| whose hair is yellower than | Q |
| torchlight should wear no | R |
| headdress but fresh flowers | D |
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| Sappho | S |
| tr Barnard | T |
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