Truly He Hath A Sweet Bed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB BEFGB HBIJKBBB LJBGFMBB NBKFB B| Brown earth sun soaked | A |
| Beneath his head | B |
| And over the quiet limbs | C |
| Through time unreckoned | B |
| Lay this brown earth for him Now is he come | D |
| Truly he hath a sweet bed | B |
| - | |
| The perfume shed | B |
| From invisible gardens is chaliced by kindly airs | E |
| And carried for welcome to the stranger | F |
| Long seasons ere he came this wilderness | G |
| They habited | B |
| - | |
| They and the mist of stars | H |
| Down spread | B |
| About him as a hush of vespering birds | I |
| They and the sun the moon | J |
| Naught now denies him the moon's coming | K |
| Nor the morning trail of gold | B |
| The luminous print of evening red | B |
| At the sun's tread | B |
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| The brown earth holds him | L |
| The stars and little winds the friendly moon | J |
| And sun attend in turn his rest | B |
| They linger above him softly moving They are gracious | G |
| And gently wise as though remembering how his hunger | F |
| His kinship knew them once but blindly | M |
| In thoughts unsaid | B |
| As a dream that fled | B |
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| So is he theirs assuredly as the seasons | N |
| So is his sleep by them for ever companioned | B |
| And perchance by the voices of bright children playing | K |
| And knowing not by the echo of young laughter | F |
| When their dancing is sped | B |
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| Truly he hath a sweet bed | B |
Thomas Moult
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