Vigil Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD BDBBBEBEEFC GHBHBIBJK EFBHFEBLI JM EBEHEE| Lived on one's back | A |
| In the long hours of repose | B |
| Life is a practical nightmare | C |
| Hideous asleep or awake | D |
| - | |
| Shoulders and loins | B |
| Ache | D |
| Ache and the mattress | B |
| Run into boulders and hummocks | B |
| Glows like a kiln while the bedclothes | B |
| Tumbling importunate daft | E |
| Ramble and roll and the gas | B |
| Screwed to its lowermost | E |
| An inevitable atom of light | E |
| Haunts and a stertorous sleeper | F |
| Snores me to hate and despair | C |
| - | |
| All the old time | G |
| Surges malignant before me | H |
| Old voices old kisses old songs | B |
| Blossom derisive about me | H |
| While the new days | B |
| Pass me in endless procession | I |
| A pageant of shadows | B |
| Silently leeringly wending | J |
| On and still on still on | K |
| - | |
| Far in the stillness a cat | E |
| Languishes loudly A cinder | F |
| Falls and the shadows | B |
| Lurch to the leap of the flame The next man to me | H |
| Turns with a moan and the snorer | F |
| The drug like a rope at his throat | E |
| Gasps gurgles snorts himself free as the night nurse | B |
| Noiseless and strange | L |
| Her bull's eye half lanterned in apron | I |
| Whispering me 'Are ye no sleepin' yet ' | - |
| Passes list slippered and peering | J |
| Round and is gone | M |
| - | |
| Sleep comes at last | E |
| Sleep full of dreams and misgivings | B |
| Broken with brutal and sordid | E |
| Voices and sounds that impose on me | H |
| Ere I can wake to it | E |
| The unnatural intolerable day | E |
William Ernest Henley
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