Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDECFE| When to oft sleep we give ourselves away | A |
| And in a dream as in a fairy bark | B |
| Drift on and on through the enchanted dark | B |
| To purple daybreak little thought we pay | A |
| To that sweet bitter world we know by day | A |
| We are clean quit of it as is a lark | B |
| So high in heaven no human eye can mark | B |
| The thin swift pinion cleaving through the gray | A |
| Till we awake ill fate can do no ill | C |
| The resting heart shall not take up again | D |
| The heavy load that yet must make it bleed | E |
| For this brief space the loud world's voice is still | C |
| No faintest echo of it brings us pain | F |
| How will it be when we shall sleep indeed | E |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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