Song - Say, Lovely Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC ADAD BEBE FGFG HIJI AKAK| Say lovely dream where couldst thou find | A |
| Shadows to counterfeit that face | B |
| Colors of this glorious kind | A |
| Come not from any mortal place | B |
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| In heaven itself thou sure wert drest | A |
| With that angel like disguise | C |
| Thus deluded am I blest | A |
| And see my joy with closed eyes | C |
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| But ah this image is too kind | A |
| To be other than a dream | D |
| Cruel Sacharissa's mind | A |
| Never put on that sweet extreme | D |
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| Fair dream if thou intend'st me grace | B |
| Change that heavenly face of thine | E |
| Paint despised love in thy face | B |
| And make it to appear like mine | E |
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| Pale wan and meager let it look | F |
| With a pity moving shape | G |
| Such as wander by the brook | F |
| Of Lethe or from graves escape | G |
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| Then to that matchless nymph appear | H |
| In whose shape thou shinest so | I |
| Softly in her sleeping ear | J |
| With humble words express my woe | I |
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| Perhaps from greatness state and pride | A |
| Thus surprised she may fall | K |
| Sleep does disproportion hide | A |
| And death resembling equals all | K |
Edmund Waller
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