Counting Sheep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEEFGGHIJJHKKILI MENIOPLPLP| Half awake I walked | A |
| A dimly seen sweet hawthorn lane | B |
| Until sleep came | C |
| I lingered at a gate and talked | A |
| A little with a lonely lamb | D |
| He told me of the great still night | E |
| Of calm starlight | E |
| And of the lady moon who'd stoop | F |
| For a kiss sometimes | G |
| Of grass as soft as sleep of rhymes | G |
| The tired flowers sang | H |
| The ageless April tales | I |
| Of how when sheep grew old | J |
| As their faith told | J |
| They went without a pang | H |
| To far green fields where fall | K |
| Perpetual streams that call | K |
| To deathless nightingales | I |
| And then I saw hard by | L |
| A shepherd lad with shining eyes | I |
| And round him gathered one by one | M |
| Countless sheep snow white | E |
| More and more they crowded | N |
| With tender cries | I |
| Till all the field was full | O |
| Of voices and of coming sheep | P |
| Countless they came and I | L |
| Watched until deep | P |
| As dream fields lie | L |
| I was asleep | P |
William Kerr
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