A Song Of Dreams Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDDFGHIJKLMNEODP QMR BSDTDUVWMXYZA2B2DC2A D2E2F2 MG2H2F2F2I2F2DF2F2J2| A voice came to me from the night and said | A |
| What profit hast thou in thy dreaming | B |
| Of the years that are set | C |
| And the years yet unrisen | D |
| Hast thou found them tillable lands | E |
| Is there fruit that thou canst pluck therein | D |
| Or any harvest to be mown | D |
| Shalt thou dig for gold in the mines of the past | F |
| Or trade for merchandise | G |
| In the years where all is desolate | H |
| Are they a sea that will bring thee to any shore | I |
| Or a desert that vergeth upon aught but the waste | J |
| Shalt thou drink From the springs that are emptied | K |
| Or find sustenance in shadows | L |
| What value hath the future given thee | M |
| Is there aught in the days yet dark | N |
| That thou canst hold with thy hands | E |
| Are they a fortress | O |
| That will afford thee protection | D |
| Against the swords of the world | P |
| Is there justice in them | Q |
| To balance the world's inequity | M |
| Or benefit to outweigh its loss | R |
| - | |
| Then spake I in answer saying | B |
| Of my dreams I have made a road | S |
| And my soul goeth out thereon | D |
| To that unto which no eye has opened | T |
| Nor ear become keen to hearken | D |
| To the glories that are shut past all access | U |
| Of the keys of sense | V |
| Whose walls are hidden by the air | W |
| And whose doors are concealed with clarity | M |
| And the road is travelled of secret things | X |
| Coming to me from afar | Y |
| Of bodiless powers | Z |
| And beauties without color or form | A2 |
| Holden by any loveliness seen of earth | B2 |
| And of my dreams I have builded an inn | D |
| Wherein these are as guests | C2 |
| And unto it come the dead | A |
| For a little rest and refuge | D2 |
| From the hollowness of the unharvestable wind | E2 |
| And the burden of too great space | F2 |
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| The fields of the past are not void to me | M |
| Who harvest with the scythe of thought | G2 |
| Nor the orchards of future years unfruitful | H2 |
| To the hands of visionings | F2 |
| I have retrieved from the darkness | F2 |
| The years and the things that were lost | I2 |
| And they are held in the light of my dreams | F2 |
| With the spirits of years unborn | D |
| And of things yet bodiless | F2 |
| As in an hospitable house | F2 |
| They shall live while the dreams abide | J2 |
Clark Ashton Smith
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