A Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFGHHIIJKLLII IIMNOOBAPPQQRRQESSTT GG GGDDU| Amid 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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