Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFCFGF HIJKLGJMNG GOFPFQFRST UFVFWXVYOA

Lay your sleeping head my loveA
Human on my faithless armB
Time and fevers burn awayC
Individual beauty fromD
Thoughtful children and the graveE
Proves the child ephermeralF
But in my arms till break of dayC
Let the living creature lieF
Mortal guilty but to meG
The entirely beautifulF
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Soul and body have no boundsH
To lovers as they lie uponI
Her tolerant enchanted slopeJ
In their ordinary swoonK
Grave the vision Venus sendsL
Of supernatural sympathyG
Universal love and hopeJ
While an abstract insight wakesM
Among the glaciers and the rocksN
The hermit's sensual ecstasyG
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Certainty fidelityG
On the stroke of midnight passO
Like vibrations of a bellF
And fashionable madmen raiseP
Their pedantic boring cryF
Every farthing of the costQ
All the dreadful cards foretellF
Shall be paid but not from this nightR
Not a whisper not a thoughtS
Not a kiss nor look be lostT
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Beauty midnight vision diesU
Let the winds of dawn that blowF
Softly round your dreaming headV
Such a day of sweetness showF
Eye and knocking heart may blessW
Find the mortal world enoughX
Noons of dryness see you fedV
By the involuntary powersY
Nights of insult let you passO
Watched by every human loveA

W. H. Auden



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