A Dream Lies Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDCDEEA dream lies dead here May you softly go | A |
Before this place and turn away your eyes | B |
Nor seek to know the look of that which dies | B |
Importuning Life for life Walk not in woe | A |
But for a little let your step be slow | A |
And of your mercy be not sweetly wise | B |
With words of hope and Spring and tenderer skies | B |
A dream lies dead and this all mourners know | A |
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Whenever one drifted petal leaves the tree | C |
Though white of bloom as it had been before | D |
And proudly waitful of fecundity | C |
One little loveliness can be no more | D |
And so must Beauty bow her imperfect head | E |
Because a dream has joined the wistful dead | E |
Dorothy Parker
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