Love, Dreaming Of Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD CBCB CECE FGFG HCHC DBDB IJIJ KLKL CMCM ENEN MDOD PQPQ CRCRI 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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