A Summer-s Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DDED FGHF IJKI LMNM OPQO DRMD MJSM TUMM| To the sagging wharf | A |
| few ships could come | B |
| The population numbered | C |
| two giants an idiot a dwarf | A |
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| a gentle storekeeper | D |
| asleep behind his counter | D |
| and our kind landlady | E |
| the dwarf was her dressmaker | D |
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| The idiot could be beguiled | F |
| by picking blackberries | G |
| but then threw them away | H |
| The shrunken seamstress smiled | F |
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| By the sea lying | I |
| blue as a mackerel | J |
| our boarding house was streaked | K |
| as though it had been crying | I |
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| Extraordinary geraniums | L |
| crowded the front windows | M |
| the floors glittered with | N |
| assorted linoleums | M |
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| Every night we listened | O |
| for a horned owl | P |
| In the horned lamp flame | Q |
| the wallpaper glistened | O |
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| The giant with the stammer | D |
| was the landlady s son | R |
| grumbling on the stairs | M |
| over an old grammar | D |
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| He was morose | M |
| but she was cheerful | J |
| The bedroom was cold | S |
| the feather bed close | M |
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| We were awakened in the dark by | T |
| the somnambulist brook | U |
| nearing the sea | M |
| still dreaming audibly | M |
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