Sleep! Sleep! Beauty Bright Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF BBGG HHDD| Sleep sleep beauty bright | A |
| Dreaming o'er the joys of night | A |
| Sleep sleep in thy sleep | B |
| Little sorrows sit and weep | B |
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| Sweet Babe in thy face | C |
| Soft desires I can trace | C |
| Secret joys and secret smiles | D |
| Little pretty infant wiles | D |
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| As thy softest limbs I feel | E |
| Smiles as of the morning steal | E |
| O'er thy cheek and o'er thy breast | F |
| Where thy little heart does rest | F |
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| O the cunning wiles that creep | B |
| In thy little heart asleep | B |
| When thy little heart does wake | G |
| Then the dreadful lightnings break | G |
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| From thy cheek and from thy eye | H |
| O'er the youthful harvests nigh | H |
| Infant wiles and infant smiles | D |
| Heaven and Earth of peace beguiles | D |
William Blake
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