Waking At 3 A.m. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCBDEF DGHBB IDJKLMNBOP| Even in the cave of the night when you | A |
| wake and are free and lonely | B |
| neglected by others discarded loved only | B |
| by what doesn't matter even in that | C |
| big room no one can see | B |
| you push with your eyes till forever | D |
| comes in its twisted figure eight | E |
| and lies down in your head | F |
| - | |
| You think water in the river | D |
| you think slower than the tide in | G |
| the grain of the wood you become | H |
| a secret storehouse that saves the country | B |
| so open and foolish and empty | B |
| - | |
| You look over all that the darkness | I |
| ripples across More than has ever | D |
| been found comforts you You open your | J |
| eyes in a vault that unlocks as fast | K |
| and as far as your thought can run | L |
| A great snug wall goes around everything | M |
| has always been there will always | N |
| remain It is a good world to be | B |
| lost in It comforts you It is | O |
| all right And you sleep | P |
William Stafford
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