Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIJI KLML| When all and birds and creeping beasts | A |
| When the dark of night is deep | B |
| From the moving wonder of their lives | C |
| Commit themselves to sleep | B |
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| Without a thought or fear they shut | D |
| The narrow gates of sense | E |
| Heedless and quiet in slumber turn | F |
| Their strength to impotence | G |
| - | |
| The transient strangeness of the earth | H |
| Their spirits no more see | I |
| Within a silent gloom withdrawn | J |
| They slumber in secrecy | I |
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| Two worlds they have a globe forgot | K |
| Wheeling from dark to light | L |
| And all the enchanted realm of dream | M |
| That burgeons out of night | L |
Walter De La Mare
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