The Dream Land Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEEFFGG A HHIIGGJJJG A KKLLMMNJGG OOKKPPQQGG| I | A |
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| To think that men of former days | B |
| In naked truth deserved the praise | B |
| Which fain to have in flesh and blood | C |
| An image of imagined good | D |
| Poets have sung and men received | E |
| And all too glad to be deceived | E |
| Most plastic and most inexact | F |
| Posterity has told for fact | F |
| To say what was was not as we | G |
| This also is a vanity | G |
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| II | A |
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| Ere Agamemnon warriors were | H |
| Ere Helen beauties equalling her | H |
| Brave ones and fair whom no one knows | I |
| And brave or fair as these or those | I |
| The commonplace whom daily we | G |
| In our dull streets and houses see | G |
| To think of other mould than these | J |
| Were Cato Solon Socrates | J |
| Or Mahomet or Confutze | J |
| This also is a vanity | G |
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| III | A |
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| Hannibal C sar Charlemain | K |
| And he before who back on Spain | K |
| Repelled the fierce inundant Moor | L |
| Godfrey St Louis wise and pure | L |
| Washington Cromwell John and Paul | M |
| Columbus Luther one and all | M |
| Go mix them up the false and true | N |
| With Sindbad Crusoe or St Preux | J |
| And say as he was so was he | G |
| This also is a vanity | G |
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| IV | - |
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| Say not Behold it here or there | O |
| Or on the earth or in the air | O |
| That better thing than can be seen | K |
| Is neither now nor e'er has been | K |
| It is not in this land or that | P |
| But in a place we soon are at | P |
| Where all can seek and some can find | Q |
| Where hope is liberal fancy kind | Q |
| And what we wish for we can see | G |
| Which also is a vanity | G |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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