Dreamland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAACC DEFFGGHFBBAA BBAA FFIJKKAA BBLLMM MMBBBBBBBBNN AA BBAA| By a route obscure and lonely | A |
| Haunted by ill angels only | A |
| Where an Eidolon named NIGHT | B |
| On a black throne reigns upright | B |
| I have reached these lands but newly | A |
| From an ultimate dim Thule | A |
| From a wild weird clime that lieth sublime | C |
| Out of SPACE out of TIME | C |
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| Bottomless vales and boundless floods | D |
| And chasms and caves and Titan woods | E |
| With forms that no man can discover | F |
| For the dews that drip all over | F |
| Mountains toppling evermore | G |
| Into seas without a shore | G |
| Seas that restlessly aspire | H |
| Surging unto skies of fire | F |
| Lakes that endlessly outspread | B |
| Their lone waters lone and dead | B |
| Their still waters still and chilly | A |
| With the snows of the lolling lily | A |
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| By the lakes that thus outspread | B |
| Their lone waters lone and dead | B |
| Their sad waters sad and chilly | A |
| With the snows of the lolling lily | A |
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| By the mountains near the river | F |
| Murmuring lowly murmuring ever | F |
| By the gray woods by the swamp | I |
| Where the toad and the newt encamp | J |
| By the dismal tarns and pools | K |
| Where dwell the Ghouls | K |
| By each spot the most unholy | A |
| In each nook most melancholy | A |
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| There the traveller meets aghast | B |
| Sheeted Memories of the past | B |
| Shrouded forms that start and sigh | L |
| As they pass the wanderer by | L |
| White robed forms of friends long given | M |
| In agony to the Earth and Heaven | M |
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| For the heart whose woes are legion | M |
| 'Tis a peaceful soothing region | M |
| For the spirit that walks in shadow | B |
| 'Tis oh 'tis an Eldorado | B |
| But the traveller travelling through it | B |
| May not dare not openly view it | B |
| Never its mysteries are exposed | B |
| To the weak human eye unclosed | B |
| So wills its King who hath forbid | B |
| The uplifting of the fringed lid | B |
| And thus the sad Soul that here passes | N |
| Beholds it but through darkened glasses | N |
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| By a route obscure and lonely | A |
| Haunted by ill angels only | A |
| - | |
| Where an Eidolon named NIGHT | B |
| On a black throne reigns upright | B |
| I have wandered home but newly | A |
| From this ultimate dim Thule | A |
Edgar Allan Poe
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