A Dream Of Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKL MDNO PMQD RADA SAT UVWA| WHERE shall we sail to day ' Thus said methought | A |
| A voice that only could be heard in dreams | B |
| And on we glided without mast or oar | C |
| A wondrous boat upon a wondrous sea | D |
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| Sudden the shore curved inward to a bay | E |
| Broad calm with gorgeous sea weeds waving slow | F |
| Beneath the water like rich thoughts that stir | G |
| In the mysterious deep of poets' hearts | H |
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| So still so fair so rosy in the dawn | I |
| Lay that bright bay yet something seemed to breath | J |
| Or in the air or from the whispering waves | K |
| Or from that voice as near as one's own soul | L |
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| 'There was a wreck last night ' A wreck then where | M |
| The ship the crew The all entombing sea | D |
| On which is writ nor name nor chronicle | N |
| Laid itself o'er them with smooth crystal smile | O |
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| 'Yet was the wreck last night ' And gazing down | P |
| Deep down below the surface we were ware | M |
| Of ghastly faces with their open eyes | Q |
| Uplooking to the dawn they could not see | D |
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| One moved with moving sea weeds one lay prone | R |
| The tinted fishes gliding o'er his breast | A |
| One caught by floating hair rocked quietly | D |
| Upon his reedy cradle like a child | A |
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| 'The wreck has been' said the melodious voice | S |
| 'Yet all is peace The dead that while we slept | A |
| Struggled for life now sleep and fear no storms | T |
| O'er them let us not weep when heaven smiles ' | - |
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| So we sailed on above the diamond sands | U |
| Bright sea flowers and white faces stony calm | V |
| Till the waves bore us to the open main | W |
| And the great sun arose upon the world | A |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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