Understand That This Is A Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEFFGHIJKILMNKKO MNNP N KQRSTN K KKUKVWMRN M X Y NZA2KKB2C2D2E2 F2G2H2 N KB V INV I BNNNYI2 E2 ZA2VI2 K MNE2NKJ2MKKVVK V AK2 K V K I2K O I2NNVK V M| Real as a dream | A |
| What shall I do with this great opportunity to fly | B |
| What is the interpretation of this planet this moon | C |
| if I can dream that I dream and dream anything dreamable can I dream | A |
| I am awake and why do that | D |
| When I dream in a dream that I wake up what | E |
| happens when I try to move | F |
| I dream that I move | F |
| and the effort moves and moves | G |
| till I move and my arm hurts | H |
| Then I wake up dismayed I was dreaming I was waking | I |
| when I was dreaming still just now | J |
| and try to remember next time in dreams | K |
| that I am in dreaming | I |
| And dream anything I want when I'm awaken | L |
| When I'm in awakeness what do I desire | M |
| I desire to fulfill my emotional belly | N |
| My whole body my heart in my fingertops thrill with some old fulfillments | K |
| Pages of celestial rhymes burning fire words | K |
| unconsumable but disappear | O |
| Arcane parchments my own and the universe the answer | M |
| Belly to Belly and knee to knee | N |
| The hot spurt of my body to thee and thee | N |
| old boy dreamy Earl you Prince of Paterson now king of me lost | P |
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| Haledon | N |
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| first dream that made me take down my pants | K |
| urgently to show the cars auto tracks rolling down avenue hill | Q |
| That far back what do I remember but the face of the leader of the gang | R |
| was blond that loved me one day on the steps of his house blocks away | S |
| all afternoon I told him about my magic Spell | T |
| I can do anything I want palaces millions chemistry sets chicken | N |
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| coops white horses | K |
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| stables and torture basements I inspect my naked victims | K |
| chained upside down my fingertips thrill approval on their thighs | K |
| white hairless cheeks I may kiss all I want | U |
| at my mercy on the racks | K |
| I pass with my strong attendants I am myself naked | V |
| bending down with my buttocks out | W |
| for their smacks of reproval o the heat of desire | M |
| liek shit in my asshole The strange gang | R |
| across the street thru the grocerystore in the wood alley out in the open | N |
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| on the corner | M |
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| Because I lied to the Dentist about that chickencoop roofing slate stolen off | X |
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| his garage | Y |
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| by me and the boy I loved who would punish me if he knew | N |
| what I loved him | Z |
| That now I have had that boy back in another blond form | A2 |
| Peter Orlovsky a Chinese teenager in Bangkok ten years twenty years | K |
| Jo Army on the campus white blond loins my mouth hath kisses | K |
| full of his cock my ass burning full of his cock | B2 |
| all that I do desire In dream and awake | C2 |
| this handsome body mine answered | D2 |
| all I desired intimate loves open eyed revealed at last clothes on the | E2 |
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| floor | F2 |
| Underwear the most revealing stripped off below the belly button in bed | G2 |
| That's that yes yes the flat cocks the red pricks the gentle public hair | H2 |
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| alone with me | N |
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| my magic spell My power what I desire alone what after thirty years | K |
| I got forever after thirty years satisfied enough with Peter with all I | B |
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| wanted | V |
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| with many men I knew one generation our sperm passing | I |
| into our mouths and bellies beautiful when I love given | N |
| Now the dream oldens I olden my hair a year long my thirtyeight | V |
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| birthday approaching | I |
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| I dream I | B |
| am bald am disappearing the campus unrecognizable Haledon Avenue | N |
| will be covered with neon motels Supermarkets iron | N |
| the porches and woods changed when i go back to see Earl again | N |
| He'll be bald fleshy father I could pursie him further in the garage | Y |
| If there's still a garage on the hill on the planet when I get back | I2 |
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| From Asia | E2 |
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| If I could even remember his name or his face or find him | Z |
| When I was ten perhaps he exists in some form | A2 |
| With a belly and a belt and an auto | V |
| Whatever his last name I never knew in the phonebook the Akashic | I2 |
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| records | K |
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| I'll write my Inspiration for all Mankind to remember | M |
| My Idea the secret cave in the clothes closet that house probably down | N |
| Nothing to go back to everything's gone only my idea | E2 |
| that's disappearing even in dreams gray dust piles instant annihilation | N |
| of World War II and all its stainless steel shining mouthed cannons | K |
| much less me and my grammar school kisses I never kissed in time | J2 |
| and go on kissing in dream and out on the street as if it were for ever | M |
| No forever left Even my oldest forever gone in Bangkok in Benares | K |
| swept up with words and bodies all into the brown Ganges | K |
| passing the burning grounds and into the police state | V |
| My mind my mind you had six feet of Earth to hoe | V |
| Why didn't you remember and plant the seed of Law and gather the sprouts | K |
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| of What | V |
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| the golden blossoms of what idea If I dream that I dream what dream | A |
| should I dream next Motorcycle rickshaws parting lamp shine little | K2 |
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| taxis horses hoofs | K |
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| on this Saigon midnight street Angkor Wat ahead and the ruined city's old | V |
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| Hindu faces | K |
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| and there was a dream about Eternity What should I dream when I wake | I2 |
| What's left to dream more Chinese meat More magic Spells More youths | K |
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| to love before I change disappear | O |
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| More dream words For now that I know that I am dreaming | I2 |
| What next for you Allen Run down to the Presidents Palace full of Morphine | N |
| The cocks crowing in the street Dawn trucks What is the question | N |
| Do I need sleep now that there's light in the window | V |
| I'll go to sleep Signing off until the next idea the moving van arrives | K |
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| empty | V |
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| at the Doctor's house full of Chinese furniture | M |
Allen Ginsberg
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