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 dead | A |
| And I was sitting wild and lone | B |
| On closed unmoving knees my head | A |
| Lay rigid as a stone | B |
| And thus I sat without a tear | C |
| And though I drew life s painful breath | D |
| All life to me seemed cold and drear | C |
| And comfortless as death | D |
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| Sat on the earth as on a bier | C |
| Where loss and ruin lived alone | B |
| Without the comfort of a tear | C |
| Without a passing groan | B |
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| And there was stillness everywhere | C |
| Ensphering one wide sense of woe | E |
| The stillness of a world s despair | C |
| Whose tides had ceased to flow | E |
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| Yea so eternal seemed my grief | F |
| Time moved out neither slow nor fast | G |
| Nor recked I whether periods brief | F |
| Or centuries had passed | G |
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| It was as if to marble cold | H |
| My loss had petrified the air | C |
| And I was shut within its hold | H |
| Made deathless by despair | C |
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| Made deathless in a world of death | D |
| There ever sitting wild and lone | B |
| With all but one pent painful breath | D |
| Transmutted into stone | B |
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| And more the gorgon horror crushed | I |
| With dry petrific pressure in | J |
| Till forth my waking spirit rushed | I |
| With agonizing din | J |
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| And oh What joy it was to wake | K |
| To cast that haggard dream away | L |
| And from its stony influence break | K |
| Into the living day | L |
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| I sought the objects of my care | C |
| And felt while I embraced the twain | M |
| How much even from a dream s despair | C |
| A father s love may gain | M |
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| When this dream record long ago | E |
| I penned how little did I deem | N |
| That yet a distant coming woe | E |
| Was shadowed in its theme | N |
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| For ah Of that beloved twain | M |
| The lips of one then warm with breath | D |
| I since have kissed unkissed again | O |
| For they were cold in death | D |
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| A swift wild death And when I think | P |
| Of all that I have lost thereby | Q |
| My heart hath pangs that seem to drink | P |
| All Mara s waters dry | Q |
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| Yea pangs that would my life destroy | C |
| Did faith not whisper oft between | R |
| Peace Sire of an immortal boy | C |
| Beyond this mortal scene | R |
Charles Harpur
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