A Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFGHHIIJKLLII IIMNOOBAPPQQRRQESSTT GG GGDDUAmid the mystic fields of Love | A |
I wander'd and beheld a grove | B |
Breathlessly still was part and part | C |
Was breathing with an easy heart | C |
And there below in lamblike game | D |
Were virgins all so much the same | D |
That each was all A youth drew nigh | E |
And on them gazed with wandering eye | E |
And would have pass'd but that a maid | F |
Clapping her hands above her said | G |
My time is now and laughing ran | H |
After the dull and strange young man | H |
And bade him stop and look at her | I |
And so he call'd her lovelier | I |
Than any else only because | J |
She only then before him was | K |
And while they stood and gazed a change | L |
Was seen in both diversely strange | L |
The youth was ever more and more | I |
That good which he had been before | I |
But the glad maiden grew and grew | I |
Such that the rest no longer knew | I |
Their sister who was now to sight | M |
The young man's self yet opposite | N |
As the outer rainbow is the first | O |
But weaker and the hues reversed | O |
And whereas in the abandon'd grove | B |
The virgin round the Central Love | A |
Had blindly circled in her play | P |
Now danced she round her partner's way | P |
And as the earth the moon's so he | Q |
Had the responsibility | Q |
Of her diviner motion Lo | R |
He sang and the heavens began to glow | R |
The pride of personality | Q |
Seeking its highest aspires to die | E |
And in unspeakably profound | S |
Humiliation Love is crown'd | S |
And from his exaltation still | T |
Into his ocean of good will | T |
He curiously casts the lead | G |
To find strange depths of lowlihead | G |
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To one same tune but higher Bold | G |
The maiden sang is Love For cold | G |
On Earth are blushes and for shame | D |
Of such an ineffectual flame | D |
As ill consumes the sacrifice | U |
Coventry Patmore
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