The Poet Who Sleeps Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFGGHHIAJF| One day when I was young I read | A |
| About a poet long since dead | A |
| Who fell asleep as poets do | B |
| In writing and make others too | B |
| But herein lies the story's gist | C |
| How a gay queen came up and kist | C |
| The sleeper | D |
| 'Capital ' thought I | E |
| 'A like good fortune let me try ' | F |
| Many the things we poets feign | G |
| I feign'd to sleep but tried in vain | G |
| I tost and turn'd from side to side | H |
| With open mouth and nostrils wide | H |
| At last there came a pretty maid | I |
| And gazed then to myself I said | A |
| 'Now for it ' She instead of kiss | J |
| Cried 'What a lazy lout is this ' | F |
Walter Savage Landor
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