Dreams Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDCCEEFFGGHIJJ KKLLMNAAOOPPQQ| Oh that my young life were a lasting dream | A |
| My spirit not awakening till the beam | A |
| Of an Eternity should bring the morrow | B |
| Yes though that long dream were of hopeless sorrow | B |
| 'Twere better than the cold reality | C |
| Of waking life to him whose heart must be | C |
| And hath been still upon the lovely earth | D |
| A chaos of deep passion from his birth | D |
| But should it be that dream eternally | C |
| Continuing as dreams have been to me | C |
| In my young boyhood should it thus be given | E |
| 'Twere folly still to hope for higher Heaven | E |
| For I have revelled when the sun was bright | F |
| I' the summer sky in dreams of living light | F |
| And loveliness have left my very heart | G |
| Inclines of my imaginary apart | G |
| From mine own home with beings that have been | H |
| Of mine own thought what more could I have seen | I |
| 'Twas once and only once and the wild hour | J |
| From my remembrance shall not pass some power | J |
| Or spell had bound me 'twas the chilly wind | K |
| Came o'er me in the night and left behind | K |
| Its image on my spirit or the moon | L |
| Shone on my slumbers in her lofty noon | L |
| Too coldly or the stars howe'er it was | M |
| That dream was that that night wind let it pass | N |
| I have been happy though in a dream | A |
| I have been happy and I love the theme | A |
| Dreams in their vivid coloring of life | O |
| As in that fleeting shadowy misty strife | O |
| Of semblance with reality which brings | P |
| To the delirious eye more lovely things | P |
| Of Paradise and Love and all my own | Q |
| Than young Hope in his sunniest hour hath known | Q |
Edgar Allan Poe
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