The Sleeping Beauty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FAFA GHGIThe scent of bramble sweets the air | A |
Amid her folded sheets she lies | B |
The gold of evening in her hair | A |
The blue of morn shut in her eyes | B |
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How many a changing moon hath lit | C |
The unchanging roses of her face | D |
Her mirror ever broods on it | C |
In silver stillness of the days | E |
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Oft flits the moth on filmy wings | F |
Into his solitary lair | A |
Shrill evensong the cricket sings | F |
From some still shadow in her hair | A |
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In heat in snow in wind in flood | G |
She sleeps in lovely loneliness | H |
Half folded like an April bud | G |
On winter haunted trees | I |
Walter De La Mare
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