The Sleep-worker Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA ABBA CDC EED| When wilt thou wake O Mother wake and see | A |
| As one who held in trance has laboured long | B |
| By vacant rote and prepossession strong | B |
| The coils that thou hast wrought unwittingly | A |
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| Wherein have place unrealized by thee | A |
| Fair growths foul cankers right enmeshed with wrong | B |
| Strange orchestras of victim shriek and song | B |
| And curious blends of ache and ecstasy | A |
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| Should that morn come and show thy opened eyes | C |
| All that Life's palpitating tissues feel | D |
| How wilt thou bear thyself in thy surprise | C |
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| Wilt thou destroy in one wild shock of shame | E |
| Thy whole high heaving firmamental frame | E |
| Or patiently adjust amend and heal | D |
Thomas Hardy
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