Sleepyhead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEED CCFFGCCG CCCGGC CHFHIH| As I lay awake in the white moonlight | A |
| I heard a faint singing in the wood | B |
| Out of bed | C |
| Sleepyhead | C |
| Put your white foot now | D |
| Here are we | E |
| Beneath the tree | E |
| Singing round the root now | D |
| - | |
| I looked out of window in the white moonlight | C |
| The leaves were like snow in the wood | C |
| Come away | F |
| Child and play | F |
| Light with the gnomies | G |
| In a mound | C |
| Green and round | C |
| That's where their home is | G |
| - | |
| Honey sweet | C |
| Curds to eat | C |
| Cream and frumenty | C |
| Shells and beads | G |
| Poppy seeds | G |
| You shall have plenty | C |
| - | |
| But as soon as I stooped in the dim moonlight | C |
| To put on my stocking and my shoe | H |
| The sweet shrill singing echoed faintly away | F |
| And the grey of the morning peeped through | H |
| And instead of the gnomies there came a red robin | I |
| To sing of the buttercups and dew | H |
Walter De La Mare
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Sleepyhead poem by Walter De La Mare
Best Poems of Walter De La Mare