When We Are All Asleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAAAAABCBCBC| WHEN He returns and finds the world so drear | A |
| All sleeping young and old unfair and fair | A |
| Will he stoop down and whisper in each ear | A |
| Awaken or for pity s sake forbear | A |
| Saying How shall I meet their frozen stare | A |
| Of wonder and their eyes so full of fear | A |
| How shall I comfort them in their despair | A |
| If they cry out Too late let us sleep here | A |
| Perchance He will not wake us up but when | B |
| He sees us look so happy in our rest | C |
| Will murmur Poor dead women and dead men | B |
| Dire was their doom and weary was their quest | C |
| Wherefore awake them into life again | B |
| Let them sleep on untroubled it is best | C |
William Cosmo Monkhouse
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