The First Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFFG HIJD KLMK NOPE QRST UEThe Wind is ghosting around the house tonight | A |
and as I lean against the door of sleep | B |
I begin to think about the first person to dream | C |
how quiet he must have seemed the next morning | D |
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as the others stood around the fire | E |
draped in the skins of animals | F |
talking to each other only in vowels | F |
for this was long before the invention of consonants | G |
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He might have gone off by himself to sit | H |
on a rock and look into the mist of a lake | I |
as he tried to tell himself what had happened | J |
how he had gone somewhere without going | D |
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how he had put his arms around the neck | K |
of a beast that the others could touch | L |
only after they had killed it with stones | M |
how he felt its breath on his bare neck | K |
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Then again the first dream could have come | N |
to a woman though she would behave | O |
I suppose much the same way | P |
moving off by herself to be alone near water | E |
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except that the curve of her young shoulders | Q |
and the tilt of her downcast head | R |
would make her appear to be terribly alone | S |
and if you were there to notice this | T |
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you might have gone down as the first person | U |
to ever fall in love with the sadness of another | E |
Billy Collins
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