Dream-land Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB DDDEFFFE GGGHDDDH IIIJKKKJ| Where sunless rivers weep | A |
| Their waves into the deep | A |
| She sleeps a charmed sleep | A |
| Awake her not | B |
| Led by a single star | C |
| She came from very far | C |
| To seek where shadows are | C |
| Her pleasant lot | B |
| - | |
| She left the rosy morn | D |
| She left the fields of corn | D |
| For twilight cold and lorn | D |
| And water springs | E |
| Through sleep as through a veil | F |
| She sees the sky look pale | F |
| And hears the nightingale | F |
| That sadly sings | E |
| - | |
| Rest rest a perfect rest | G |
| Shed over brow and breast | G |
| Her face is toward the west | G |
| The purple land | H |
| She cannot see the grain | D |
| Ripening on hill and plain | D |
| She cannot feel the rain | D |
| Upon her hand | H |
| - | |
| Rest rest for evermore | I |
| Upon a mossy shore | I |
| Rest rest at the heart's core | I |
| Till time shall cease | J |
| Sleep that no pain shall wake | K |
| Night that no morn shall break | K |
| Till joy shall overtake | K |
| Her perfect peace | J |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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