The Dream Called Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFFGDHIJIKLFMMFFF IIMMNNFFNFF| From the Spanish of Pedro Calderon de la Barca | A |
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| A dream it was in which I found myself | B |
| And you that hail me now then hailed me king | C |
| In a brave palace that was all my own | D |
| Within and all without it mine until | E |
| Drunk with excess of majesty and pride | F |
| Methought I towered so big and swelled so wide | F |
| That of myself I burst the glittering bubble | G |
| Which my ambition had about me blown | D |
| And all again was darkness Such a dream | H |
| As this in which I may be walking now | I |
| Dispensing solemn justice to you shadows | J |
| Who make believe to listen but anon | I |
| Kings princes captains warriors plume and steel | K |
| Aye even with all your airy theatre | L |
| May flit into the air you seem to rend | F |
| With acclamations leaving me to wake | M |
| In the dark tower or dreaming that I wake | M |
| From this that waking is or this and that | F |
| Both waking and both dreaming such a doubt | F |
| Confounds and clouds our moral life about | F |
| But whether wake or dreaming this I know | I |
| How dreamwise human glories come and go | I |
| Whose momentary tenure not to break | M |
| Walking as one who knows he soon may wake | M |
| So fairly carry the full cup so well | N |
| Disordered insolence and passion quell | N |
| That there be nothing after to upbraid | F |
| Dreamer or doer in the part he played | F |
| Whether tomorrow's dawn shall break the spell | N |
| Or the last trumpet of the Eternal Day | F |
| When dreaming with the night shall pass away | F |
Edward Fitzgerald
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