A Man's Reverie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG IJJI| How cold the old porch seems A dreary chill | A |
| Creeps upward from the river at twilight | B |
| And yet I like to linger here at night | B |
| And dream the summer tarries with us still | A |
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| The summer and the summer guests or guest | C |
| Men rarely dream in plurals Over there | D |
| Beyond the pillars stands the rustic chair | D |
| As bare and empty as a robin's nest | C |
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| No pretty head reclines its golden bands | E |
| Against the back No playful winds disclose | F |
| Distracting glimpses of embroidered hose | F |
| No palm leaf waves in dainty dangerous hands | E |
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| How cold it is That star up yonder gleams | G |
| A white ice sickle from the heavenly eaves | H |
| That bleak wind from the river sighs and grieves | H |
| Perchance o'er some poor fellow's broken dreams | G |
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| Come in and shut the door and leave that star | I |
| To watch above the lonely portico | J |
| Summer and summer guests and dreams must go | J |
| Well Fate was kind to leave me my cigar | I |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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