A Dream Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACAC DCDCDC CECECE CFCFCF GGGGGG CCCCCC| Where tides of tossed wistaria bloom | A |
| Foam up in purple turbulence | B |
| Where twining boughs have built a room | A |
| And wing'd winds pause to garner scents | C |
| And scattered sunlight flecks the gloom | A |
| She broods in pensive indolence | C |
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| What is the thought that holds her thrall | D |
| That dims her sight with unshed tears | C |
| What songs of sorrow droop and fall | D |
| In broken music for her ears | C |
| What voices thrill her and recall | D |
| The poignant joy of happier years | C |
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| She dreams 'tis not the winds which pass | C |
| That whisper through the shaken vine | E |
| Whose footstep stirs the rustling grass | C |
| None else that listened might divine | E |
| She sees her child that never was | C |
| Look up with longing in his eyne | E |
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| Unkissed his lifted forehead gains | C |
| A grace not earthly but more rare | F |
| For since her heart but only feigns | C |
| Wherefore should love not feign him fair | F |
| Put blood of roses in his veins | C |
| Weave yellow sunshines for his hair | F |
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| All ghosts of little children dead | G |
| That wander wistful uncaressed | G |
| Their seeking lips by love unfed | G |
| She fain would cradle on her breast | G |
| For his sweet sake whose lonely head | G |
| Has never known that tender rest | G |
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| And thus she sits and thus she broods | C |
| Where drifted blossoms freak the grass | C |
| The winds that move across her moods | C |
| Pulse with low whispers as they pass | C |
| And in their eerier interludes | C |
| She hears a voice that never was | C |
Don Marquis
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