Dream-love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEFD GHGIJHJI AKDLDKML FENGAEMG AOAPQRSP ATNUNTVU AWSXYWZX A2B2C2BD2B2QE2| Young Love lies sleeping | A |
| In May time of the year | B |
| Among the lilies | C |
| Lapped in the tender light | D |
| White lambs come grazing | A |
| White doves come building there | E |
| And round about him | F |
| The May bushes are white | D |
| - | |
| Soft moss the pillow | G |
| For oh a softer cheek | H |
| Broad leaves cast shadow | G |
| Upon the heavy eyes | I |
| There winds and waters | J |
| Grow lulled and scarcely speak | H |
| There twilight lingers | J |
| The longest in the skies | I |
| - | |
| Young Love lies dreaming | A |
| But who shall tell the dream | K |
| A perfect sunlight | D |
| On rustling forest tips | L |
| Or perfect moonlight | D |
| Upon a rippling stream | K |
| Or perfect silence | M |
| Or song of cherished lips | L |
| - | |
| Burn odours round him | F |
| To fill the drowsy air | E |
| Weave silent dances | N |
| Around him to and fro | G |
| For oh in waking | A |
| The sights are not so fair | E |
| And song and silence | M |
| Are not like these below | G |
| - | |
| Young Love lies dreaming | A |
| Till summer days are gone | O |
| Dreaming and drowsing | A |
| Away to perfect sleep | P |
| He sees the beauty | Q |
| Sun hath not looked upon | R |
| And tastes the fountain | S |
| Unutterably deep | P |
| - | |
| Him perfect music | A |
| Doth hush unto his rest | T |
| And thro' the pauses | N |
| The perfect silence calms | U |
| Oh poor the voices | N |
| Of earth from east to west | T |
| And poor earth's stillness | V |
| Between her stately palms | U |
| - | |
| Young Love lies drowsing | A |
| Away to poppied death | W |
| Cool shadows deepen | S |
| Across the sleeping face | X |
| So fails the summer | Y |
| With warm delicious breath | W |
| And what hath autumn | Z |
| To give us in its place | X |
| - | |
| Draw close the curtains | A2 |
| Of branched evergreen | B2 |
| Change cannot touch them | C2 |
| With fading fingers sere | B |
| Here the first violets | D2 |
| Perhaps will bud unseen | B2 |
| And a dove may be | Q |
| Return to nestle here | E2 |
Christina Rossetti
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