Love, Dreaming Of Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD CBCB CECE FGFG HCHC DBDB IJIJ KLKL CMCM ENEN MDOD PQPQ CRCR

I dreamt my little boys were deadA
And I was sitting wild and loneB
On closed unmoving knees my headA
Lay rigid as a stoneB
And thus I sat without a tearC
And though I drew life s painful breathD
All life to me seemed cold and drearC
And comfortless as deathD
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Sat on the earth as on a bierC
Where loss and ruin lived aloneB
Without the comfort of a tearC
Without a passing groanB
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And there was stillness everywhereC
Ensphering one wide sense of woeE
The stillness of a world s despairC
Whose tides had ceased to flowE
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Yea so eternal seemed my griefF
Time moved out neither slow nor fastG
Nor recked I whether periods briefF
Or centuries had passedG
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It was as if to marble coldH
My loss had petrified the airC
And I was shut within its holdH
Made deathless by despairC
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Made deathless in a world of deathD
There ever sitting wild and loneB
With all but one pent painful breathD
Transmutted into stoneB
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And more the gorgon horror crushedI
With dry petrific pressure inJ
Till forth my waking spirit rushedI
With agonizing dinJ
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And oh What joy it was to wakeK
To cast that haggard dream awayL
And from its stony influence breakK
Into the living dayL
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I sought the objects of my careC
And felt while I embraced the twainM
How much even from a dream s despairC
A father s love may gainM
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When this dream record long agoE
I penned how little did I deemN
That yet a distant coming woeE
Was shadowed in its themeN
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For ah Of that beloved twainM
The lips of one then warm with breathD
I since have kissed unkissed againO
For they were cold in deathD
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A swift wild death And when I thinkP
Of all that I have lost therebyQ
My heart hath pangs that seem to drinkP
All Mara s waters dryQ
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Yea pangs that would my life destroyC
Did faith not whisper oft betweenR
Peace Sire of an immortal boyC
Beyond this mortal sceneR

Charles Harpur



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