A Dream Of Resurrection Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DDDD EDDE FGGF HIIH DDDD JKKJ LDD MNNO PDDP DDDD QNNQ| SO heavenly beautiful it lay | A |
| It was less like a human corse | B |
| Than that fair shape in which perforce | B |
| A lost hope clothes itself alway | C |
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| The dream showed very plain the bed | D |
| Where that known unknown face reposed | D |
| A woman's face with eyelids closed | D |
| A something precious that was dead | D |
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| A something lost on this side life | E |
| By which the mourner came and stood | D |
| And laid down ne'er to be indued | D |
| All flaunting robes of earthly strife | E |
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| Shred off like votive locks of hair | F |
| Youth's ornaments of pride and strength | G |
| And cast them in their golden length | G |
| The silence of that bier to share | F |
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| No tears fell but with gazings long | H |
| Lorn memory tried to print that face | I |
| On the heart's ever vacant place | I |
| With a sun finger sharp and strong | H |
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| Then kisses dropping without sound | D |
| And solemn arms wound round the dead | D |
| And lifting from the natural bed | D |
| Into the coffin's strange new bound | D |
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| Yet still no farewell or belief | J |
| In death no more than one believes | K |
| In some dread truth that sudden weaves | K |
| The whole world in a shroud of grief | J |
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| And still unanswered kisses still | L |
| Warm clingings to the image cold | D |
| With an incredulous faith's close fold | D |
| Creative in its fierce 'I will ' | - |
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| Hush hush the marble eyelids move | M |
| The kissed lips quiver into breath | N |
| Avaunt thou mockery of Death | N |
| Avaunt we are conquerors I and Love | O |
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| Corpse of dead Hope awake arise | P |
| A living Hope that only slept | D |
| Until the tears thus overwept | D |
| Had washed the blindness from our eyes | P |
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| Come back into the upper day | D |
| Pluck off these cerements Patient shroud | D |
| We'll wrap thee as a garment proud | D |
| Round the fair shape we thought was clay | D |
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| Clasp arms cling soul eyes drink anew | Q |
| The beauty that returns with breath | N |
| Faith that out loved this trance like death | N |
| May see this resurrection too | Q |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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