A Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFGHHIIJKLLII IIMNOOBAPPQQRRQESSTT GG GGDDU

Amid the mystic fields of LoveA
I wander'd and beheld a groveB
Breathlessly still was part and partC
Was breathing with an easy heartC
And there below in lamblike gameD
Were virgins all so much the sameD
That each was all A youth drew nighE
And on them gazed with wandering eyeE
And would have pass'd but that a maidF
Clapping her hands above her saidG
My time is now and laughing ranH
After the dull and strange young manH
And bade him stop and look at herI
And so he call'd her lovelierI
Than any else only becauseJ
She only then before him wasK
And while they stood and gazed a changeL
Was seen in both diversely strangeL
The youth was ever more and moreI
That good which he had been beforeI
But the glad maiden grew and grewI
Such that the rest no longer knewI
Their sister who was now to sightM
The young man's self yet oppositeN
As the outer rainbow is the firstO
But weaker and the hues reversedO
And whereas in the abandon'd groveB
The virgin round the Central LoveA
Had blindly circled in her playP
Now danced she round her partner's wayP
And as the earth the moon's so heQ
Had the responsibilityQ
Of her diviner motion LoR
He sang and the heavens began to glowR
The pride of personalityQ
Seeking its highest aspires to dieE
And in unspeakably profoundS
Humiliation Love is crown'dS
And from his exaltation stillT
Into his ocean of good willT
He curiously casts the leadG
To find strange depths of lowliheadG
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To one same tune but higher BoldG
The maiden sang is Love For coldG
On Earth are blushes and for shameD
Of such an ineffectual flameD
As ill consumes the sacrificeU

Coventry Patmore



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