A Ballad Of Dreamland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABABBCCC ACACCCCC D CCCC| I hid my heart in a nest of roses | A |
| Out of the sun's way hidden apart | B |
| In a softer bed than the soft white snow's is | A |
| Under the roses I hid my heart | B |
| Why would it sleep not why should it start | B |
| When never a leaf of the rose tree stirred | C |
| What made sleep flutter his wings and part | B |
| Only the song of a secret bird | C |
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| Lie still I said for the wind's wing closes | A |
| And mild leaves muffle the keen sun's dart | B |
| Lie still for the wind on the warm seas dozes | A |
| And the wind is unquieter yet than thou art | B |
| Does a thought in thee still as a thorn's wound smart | B |
| Does the fang still fret thee of hope deferred | C |
| What bids the lips of thy sleep dispart | C |
| Only the song of a secret bird | C |
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| The green land's name that a charm encloses | A |
| It never was writ in the traveller's chart | C |
| And sweet on its trees as the fruit that grows is | A |
| It never was sold in the merchant's mart | C |
| The swallows of dreams through its dim fields dart | C |
| And sleep's are the tunes in its tree tops heard | C |
| No hound's note wakens the wildwood hart | C |
| Only the song of a secret bird | C |
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| ENVOI | D |
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| In the world of dreams I have chosen my part | C |
| To sleep for a season and hear no word | C |
| Of true love's truth or of light love's art | C |
| Only the song of a secret bird | C |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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