Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGFF HHII CCGG JJKK HHGG| But now the Dream has come again the world is as of old | A |
| Once more I feel about my breast the heartening splendors fold | A |
| Now I am back in that good place from which my footsteps came | B |
| And I am hushed of any grief and have laid by my shame | B |
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| I know not by what road I came oh wonderful and fair | C |
| Only I know I ailed for thee and that thou wert not there | C |
| Then suddenly Time's stalwart wall before thee did divide | D |
| Its solid bastions dreamed and swayed and there was I inside | D |
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| It is thy nearness makes thee seem so wonderful and far | E |
| In that deep sky thou art obscured as in the noon a star | E |
| But when the darkness of my grief swings up the mid day sky | F |
| My need begets a shining world Lo in thy light am I | F |
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| All that I used to be is there and all I yet shall be | G |
| My laughter deepens in the air my quiet in the tree | G |
| My utter tremblings of delight are manna from the sky | F |
| And shining flower like in the grass my innocencies lie | F |
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| And here I run and sleep and laugh and have no name at all | H |
| Only if God should speak to me then I would heed the call | H |
| And I forget the curious ways the alien looks of men | I |
| For even as it was of old so is it now again | I |
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| Still every angel looks the same and all the folks are there | C |
| That are so bounteous and mild and have not any care | C |
| But kindest to me is the one I would most choose to be | G |
| She is so beautiful and sheds such loving looks on me | G |
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| She is so beautiful and lays her cheek against my own | J |
| Back in the world they all will say How happy you have grown | J |
| Her breath is sweet about my eyes and she has healed me now | K |
| Though I be scarred with grief I keep her kiss upon my brow | K |
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| All day sweet land I fight for thee outside the goodly wall | H |
| And 'twixt my breathless wounds I have no sight of thee at all | H |
| And sometimes I forget thy looks and what thy ways may be | G |
| I have denied thou wert at all yet still I fight for thee | G |
Anna Hempstead Branch
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