Slow Movement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEC FGCH| All those treasures that lie in the little bolted box whose tiny space is | A |
| Mightier than the room of the stars being secret and filled with dreams | B |
| All those treasures I hold them in my hand are straining continually | C |
| Against the sides and the lid and the two ends of the little box in which I guard them | D |
| Crying that there is no sun come among them this great while and that they weary of shining | E |
| Calling me to fold back the lid of the little box and to give them sleep finally | C |
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| But the night I am hiding from them dear friend is far more desperate than their night | F |
| And so I take pity on them and pretend to have lost the key to the little house of my treasures | G |
| For they would die of weariness were I to open it and not be merely faint and sleepy | C |
| As they are now | H |
William Carlos Williams
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