Ode To Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DBDB EFEF| On this my pensive pillow gentle Sleep | A |
| Descend in all thy downy plumage drest | B |
| Wipe with thy wing these eyes that wake to weep | A |
| And place thy crown of poppies on my breast | B |
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| O steep my senses in oblivion's balm | C |
| And sooth my throbbing pulse with lenient hand | B |
| This tempest of my boiling blood becalm | C |
| Despair grows mild at thy supreme command | B |
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| Yet ah in vain familiar with the gloom | D |
| And sadly toiling through the tedious night | B |
| I seek sweet slumber while that virgin bloom | D |
| For ever hovering haunts my wretched sight | B |
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| Nor would the dawning day my sorrows charm | E |
| Black midnight and the blaze of noon alike | F |
| To me appear while with uplifted arm | E |
| Death stands prepar'd but still delays to strike | F |
Thomas Warton Jr.
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