Queen Oriana's Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFFGGHHIIII HHJJJJHHKKKKHHIIIIKK| On a bank with roses shaded | A |
| Whose sweet scent the violets aided | B |
| Violets whose breath alone | C |
| Yields but feeble smell or none | D |
| Sweeter bed Jove ne'er repos'd on | E |
| When his eyes Olympus closed on | E |
| While o'er head six slaves did hold | F |
| Canopy of cloth o' gold | F |
| And two more did music keep | G |
| Which might Juno lull to sleep | G |
| Oriana who was queen | H |
| To the mighty Tamerlane | H |
| That was lord of all the land | I |
| Between Thrace and Samarchand | I |
| While the noon tide fervor beam'd | I |
| Mused herself to sleep and dream'd | I |
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| Thus far in magnific strain | H |
| A young poet sooth'd his vein | H |
| But he had nor prose nor numbers | J |
| To express a princess' slumbers | J |
| Youthful Richard had strange fancies | J |
| Was deep versed in old romances | J |
| And could talk whole hours upon | H |
| The great Cham and Prester John | H |
| Tell the field in which the Sophi | K |
| From the Tartar won a trophy | K |
| What he read with such delight of | K |
| Thought he could as eas'ly write of | K |
| But his over young invention | H |
| Kept not pace with brave intention | H |
| Twenty suns did rise and set | I |
| And he could no further get | I |
| But unable to proceed | I |
| Made a virtue out of need | I |
| And his labours wiselier deem'd of | K |
| Did omit what the queen dream'd of | K |
Charles Lamb
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