The Ideal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCBBDDEEFGHHIIJJ KKLLHH MMNNOOIIPQRSTTFFCC UUVVVWEXYZZA2A2BBB2B 2 C2D2BBE2F2OOG2G2BBH2 H2I2Y J2J2K2K2J2J2L2L2DDAM 2 N2N2AAKKQEHHHN2N2B2B 2B2DDO2O2 BBJ2J2C2P2J2J2J2J2E2 E2Q2Q2R2R2O2O2Spirit of Dreams When many a toilsome height | A |
Shut paradise from exiled Adam s sight | A |
Two wedded powers were given thenceforth to stray | B |
On either hand companions of his way | B |
This Hope was named in heaven whence he came | C |
And that of Melancholy bore the name | C |
Thy parents these who clothed thee with a ray | B |
Snatched from Perfection as she passed away | B |
And to their gentle child bequeathed the grace | D |
Wherewith they once adorned unfallen nature s face | D |
Queen mother of Elysiums and all fair | E |
Hesperian gardens hear thy suppliant s prayer | E |
Lend me the hues with which the mortal eyes | F |
Thou dost bring back the tints of paradise | G |
Hues drawn from all the splendours that there be | H |
In this new world from earth and sky and sea | H |
From nameless flowers that wild in forests run | I |
Up to the glories of the setting sun | I |
From those white flickers that round fountains leap | J |
From the phosphoric lightenings of the deep | J |
From wave wet sands that glisten on the shore | K |
From blazing diamonds and rich beaming ore | K |
From these by thee with native art combined | L |
And interblended with the light of mind | L |
These hues now lend thy suppliant for he | H |
The brilliant steps would trace of thy whole ministry | H |
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O for a golden lyre while first I sing | M |
How thou dost lovelier make the loveliest thing | M |
Woman is beautiful no more unless | N |
Thou touch her beauty with thy soft caress | N |
Then sweeter sweets her form at once invest | O |
Than breathe in gales of Araby the blest | O |
A thousand charms from thy fair soul are given | I |
And she outshines the very moon of heaven | I |
Lovely this prospect Yet thy presence here | P |
Doubles each glory of the golden year | Q |
Breathes but thy influence o er a pasture plain | R |
And lo tis flushed with Eden glows again | S |
This light how glorious A sun woven robe | T |
Wrapping in living warmth the fruitful globe | T |
But if thy touch lend vision to our eyes | F |
We see celestial radiance flood the skies | F |
The common light burns with diviner flame | C |
It is the light of God Our awestruck souls exclaim | C |
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O he whose wild heart leaps to thy wild call | U |
Hath yet some joy whatever may befall | U |
Hath yet some wealth where destitution reigns | V |
Nay even some high inviolable gains | V |
Where rapine sits enthroned and slavery clanks her chains | V |
Still his possessions compass whatsoe er | W |
Of good and beauteous nature treasures there | E |
Still the lone hill wild vale and pathless grove | X |
Are his by the great solemn right of love | Y |
For him what gold is in the morning s hues | Z |
What unbought jewels are the lucent dews | Z |
What regal mansions are the brookside bowers | A2 |
What gay assemblies the balm breathing flowers | A2 |
Then every bird that pipes a matin lay | B |
Doth unto him unconscious tribute pay | B |
Yea every grace of stream and wood and sky | B2 |
Is vassal to his sovereign ear and eye | B2 |
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And when the busy coils of Mammon s brood | C2 |
Fail like the voices of an ebbing flood | D2 |
And from the scenes that glared with her display | B |
Pride drunken fashion rolls fatigued away | B |
When from mild evening s shadowy robe the breeze | E2 |
Shakes cool delight and odorous messages | F2 |
And when no longer the sun s beams fire crest | O |
The dusky hills but round him in the west | O |
Are gathered even like a summoned host | G2 |
In gorgeous tents on the horizon s coast | G2 |
Ere to the regions of a separate day | B |
He rolls at length in purple pomp away | B |
Whilst yet some moments yet withdrawing gleams | H2 |
Travel the air and die along the streams | H2 |
A sumptuous festival that hour shall prove | I2 |
To bathe his chosen soul with harmony and love | Y |
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When up the unclouded heaven in starry sheen | J2 |
Night walks like a gem sprangled Ethiop queen | J2 |
And from her solemn curtains wide unfurled | K2 |
Falls dense repose upon the drowsy world | K2 |
No sordid appetite no passion mean | J2 |
Chains down thy votary to this mere terrene | J2 |
But following thee he freely soars afar | L2 |
From moon to planet and from star to star | L2 |
Yea onward still he venturous may trace | D |
Thy distant course through dimmest depths of space | D |
Till waxing bolder from the boundless flight | A |
He claim his kinship with the infinite | M2 |
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And now though mournful he thy servant s theme | N2 |
A tale of hapless love or faded dream | N2 |
Of worth of men whose spirits once so bright | A |
Like halcyons gemmed the rivers of delight | A |
But fled misfortune s wintry floods before | K |
Never to show their shining plumage more | K |
Still thou thy hope tired follower ever near | Q |
Sublim st each sigh and hallowest every tear | E |
Till even despair thy handmaid grows to be | H |
Sending a lurid light by its intensity | H |
Through awful spirit depths thy foes can never see | H |
Doth danger threaten and doth terror scream | N2 |
O er their wild fronts a reconciling gleam | N2 |
Thy wings reflect The storm that rends the sky | B2 |
And ploughs the ocean can if thou art nigh | B2 |
Give to the heart stern strength and lift the soul on high | B2 |
Thou throw st fierce loveliness o er ruin s face | D |
And over death s calm brow a mild entrancing grace | D |
Nay be thy glance but turned where devils dwell | O2 |
And a sad glory lightens out of hell | O2 |
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Spirit of dreams Oh let me grateful say | B |
How thou hast brightened my lone earthly way | B |
When most beset by troubles stern and new | J2 |
When foes must triumphed friends were most untrue | J2 |
My soul s distractions thou hast all subdued | C2 |
Through visions high of Love and Liberty and Good | P2 |
Or stood I like a wizard wild and lone | J2 |
On some great mountain s cloud frequented cone | J2 |
Meet altar of a universal fane | J2 |
Where no fiend rites had left their murder strain | J2 |
Thou gav st me faith s prophetic power to seize | E2 |
High consolation out of mysteries | E2 |
Those mystic terrors that low muttering roll | Q2 |
Through life s dim tract the storm clouds of the soul | Q2 |
O spirit Thus attend me to the last | R2 |
Brighten the future as thou did st the past | R2 |
May never aught thy splendid dreams dispel | O2 |
Till the hard Real earn the heart s applause as well | O2 |
Charles Harpur
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