The First Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFFG HIJD KLMK NOPE QRST UE

The Wind is ghosting around the house tonightA
and as I lean against the door of sleepB
I begin to think about the first person to dreamC
how quiet he must have seemed the next morningD
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as the others stood around the fireE
draped in the skins of animalsF
talking to each other only in vowelsF
for this was long before the invention of consonantsG
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He might have gone off by himself to sitH
on a rock and look into the mist of a lakeI
as he tried to tell himself what had happenedJ
how he had gone somewhere without goingD
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how he had put his arms around the neckK
of a beast that the others could touchL
only after they had killed it with stonesM
how he felt its breath on his bare neckK
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Then again the first dream could have comeN
to a woman though she would behaveO
I suppose much the same wayP
moving off by herself to be alone near waterE
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except that the curve of her young shouldersQ
and the tilt of her downcast headR
would make her appear to be terribly aloneS
and if you were there to notice thisT
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you might have gone down as the first personU
to ever fall in love with the sadness of anotherE

Billy Collins



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