A Dream Observed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DAEA FGHG IJKL GMJM| Out from his bed the breaking seas | A |
| By waking eyes unseen | B |
| Now fall aquatic creatures whirl | C |
| And he whirls through the ambient green | B |
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| The sea lion and the scolopendra | D |
| Lolling in sleep he sees | A |
| Strange in their ways and the swift changes | E |
| Their landscape makes from shells to trees | A |
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| Down English lanes a camel walks | F |
| Or untrammelled flies | G |
| But I wakeful and watching see | H |
| How chilly out of the clothes he lies | G |
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| Easy an act to cover him warm | I |
| Such a lover's small success | J |
| Like the heaped mind so humble in sleep | K |
| But points our actual powerlessness | L |
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| Monsters in dreams he sees yet lies | G |
| At peace in his curling bed | M |
| Blessings that outdo all distress | J |
| Implicit in his sleeping head | M |
Anne Barbara Ridler
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