The Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQQRR MSQMQTUQVWCQXYZQQQQA 2B2C2D2POE2F2QG2F2H2 I2F2I2MF2ME2F2QJ2QVF 2QURRME2QQMJ2OK2MQL2 CQQF2RQOQQM2QRA2MON2 RH2QH2| It was the morning through the shutters closed | A |
| Along the balcony the earliest rays | B |
| Of sunlight my dark room were entering | C |
| When at the time that sleep upon our eyes | D |
| Its softest and most grateful shadows casts | E |
| There stood beside me looking in my face | F |
| The image dear of her who taught me first | G |
| To love then left me to lament her loss | H |
| To me she seemed not dead but sad with such | I |
| A countenance as the unhappy wear | J |
| Her right hand near my head she sighing placed | K |
| 'Dost thou still live ' she said to me 'and dost | L |
| Thou still remember what we were and are ' | M |
| And I replied 'Whence comest thou and how | N |
| Beloved and beautiful Oh how how I | O |
| Have grieved still grieve for thee Nor did I think | P |
| Thou e'er couldst know it more and oh that thought | Q |
| My sorrow rendered more disconsolate | Q |
| But art thou now again to leave me | R |
| I fear so Say what hath befallen thee | R |
| Art thou the same What preys upon thee thus ' | M |
| 'Oblivion weighs upon thy thoughts and sleep | S |
| Envelops them ' she answered 'I am dead | Q |
| And many months have passed since last we met ' | M |
| What grief oppressed me as these words I heard | Q |
| And she continued 'In the flower of youth | T |
| Cut off when life is sweetest and before | U |
| The heart that lesson sad and sure hath learnt | Q |
| The utter vanity of human hope | V |
| The sick man may e'en covet as a boon | W |
| That which withdraws him from all suffering | C |
| But to the young Death comes disconsolate | Q |
| And hard the fate of hope that in the grave | X |
| Is quenched And yet how vain that knowledge is | Y |
| That Nature from the inexperienced hides | Z |
| And a blind sorrow is to be preferred | Q |
| To wisdom premature ' 'Hush hush ' I cried | Q |
| 'Unhappy one and dear My heart is crushed | Q |
| With these thy words And art thou dead indeed | Q |
| O my beloved and am I still alive | A2 |
| And was it then in heaven decreed that this | B2 |
| Thy tender body the last damps of death | C2 |
| Should feel and my poor wretched frame remain | D2 |
| Unharmed Oh often often as I think | P |
| That thou no longer livest and that I | O |
| Shall never see thee on the earth again | E2 |
| Incredible it seems Alas alas | F2 |
| What is this thing that they call death Oh would | Q |
| That I this day the mystery could solve | G2 |
| And my defenceless head withdraw from Fate's | F2 |
| Relentless hate I still am young and still | H2 |
| Feel all the blight and misery of age | I2 |
| Which I so dread and distant far it seems | F2 |
| But ah how little different from age | I2 |
| The flower of my years ' 'We both were born ' | M |
| She said 'to weep unhappy were our lives | F2 |
| And heaven took pleasure in our sufferings ' | M |
| 'Oh if my eyes with tears ' I added 'then | E2 |
| My face with pallor veiled thou seest for loss | F2 |
| Of thee and anguish weighing on my heart | Q |
| Tell me was any spark of pity or of love | J2 |
| For the poor lover kindled in thy heart | Q |
| While thou didst live I then between my hope | V |
| And my despair passed weary nights and days | F2 |
| And now my mind is with vain doubts oppressed | Q |
| Oh if but once compassion smote thee for | U |
| My darkened life conceal it not from me | R |
| I pray thee let the memory console me | R |
| Since of their future our young days were robbed ' | M |
| And she 'Be comforted unhappy one | E2 |
| I was not churlish of my pity whilst | Q |
| I lived and am not now myself so wretched | Q |
| Oh do not chide this most unhappy child ' | M |
| 'By all our sufferings and by the love | J2 |
| Which preys upon me ' I exclaimed 'and by | O |
| Our youth and by the hope that faded from | K2 |
| Our lives O let me dearest touch thy hand ' | M |
| And sweetly sadly she extended it | Q |
| And while I covered it with kisses while | L2 |
| With sorrow and with rapture quivering | C |
| I to my panting bosom fondly pressed it | Q |
| With fervent passion glowed my face and breast | Q |
| My trembling voice refused its utterance | F2 |
| And all things swam before my sight when she | R |
| Her eyes fixed tenderly on mine replied | Q |
| 'And dost thou then forget dear friend that I | O |
| Am of my beauty utterly deprived | Q |
| And vainly thou unhappy one dost yield | Q |
| To passion's transports Now a last farewell | M2 |
| Our wretched minds our feeble bodies too | Q |
| Eternally are parted Thou to me | R |
| No longer livest nevermore shall live | A2 |
| Fate hath annulled the faith that thou hast sworn ' | M |
| Then in my anguish as I seemed to cry | O |
| Aloud convulsed my eyes o'erflowing with | N2 |
| The tears of utter helpless misery | R |
| I started from my sleep The image still | H2 |
| Was seen and in the sun's uncertain light | Q |
| Above my couch she seemed to linger still | H2 |
Count Giacomo Leopardi
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