The Sleeper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHIHJEKE LMNMOBPBFQRQ| As Ann came in one summer's day | A |
| She felt that she must creep | B |
| So silent was the clear cool house | C |
| It seemed a house of sleep | B |
| And sure when she pushed open the door | D |
| Rapt in the stillness there | E |
| Her mother sat with stooping head | F |
| Asleep upon a chair | E |
| Fast fast asleep her two hands laid | G |
| Loose folded on her knee | H |
| So that her small unconscious face | I |
| Looked half unreal to be | H |
| So calmly lit with sleep's pale light | J |
| Each feature was so fair | E |
| Her forehead every trouble was | K |
| Smooth'd out beneath her hair | E |
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| But though her mind in dream now moved | L |
| Still seemed her gaze to rest | M |
| From out beneath her fast sealed lids | N |
| Above her moving breast | M |
| On Ann as quite quite still she stood | O |
| Yet slumber lay so deep | B |
| Even her hands upon her lap | P |
| Seemed saturate with sleep | B |
| And as Ann peeped a cloudlike dread | F |
| Stole over her and then | Q |
| On stealthy mouselike feet she trod | R |
| And tiptoed out again | Q |
Walter De La Mare
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