Dreams Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDE FGFGHIHJE KLKLMNMNE NONOPQPRE| Thank God for dreams I desolate and lone | A |
| In the dark curtained night did seem to be | B |
| The centre where all golden sun rays shone | A |
| And sitting there held converse sweet with thee | B |
| No shadow lurked between us all was bright | C |
| And beautiful as in the hours gone by | D |
| I smiled and was rewarded by the light | C |
| Of olden days soft beaming from thine eye | D |
| Thank God thank God for dreams | E |
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| I thought the birds all listened for thy voice | F |
| Pulsed through the air like beat of silver wings | G |
| It made each chamber of my soul rejoice | F |
| And thrilled along my heart's tear rusted strings | G |
| As some devout and ever prayerful nun | H |
| Tells her bright beads and counts them o'er and o'er | I |
| Thy golden words I gathered one by one | H |
| And slipped them into memory's precious store | J |
| Thank God thank God for dreams | E |
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| My lips met thine in one ecstatic kiss | K |
| Hand pressed in hand and heart to heart we sat | L |
| Why even now I am surcharged with bliss | K |
| With joy supreme if I but think of that | L |
| No fear of separation or of change | M |
| Crept in to mar our sweet serene content | N |
| In that blest vision nothing could estrange | M |
| Our wedded souls in perfect union blent | N |
| Thank God thank God for dreams | E |
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| Thank God for dreams when nothing else is left | N |
| When the sick soul all tortured with its pain | O |
| Knowing itself forever more bereft | N |
| Finds waiting hopeless and all watching vain | O |
| When empty arms grow rigid with their ache | P |
| When eyes are blinded with sad tides of tears | Q |
| When stricken hearts do suffer yet not break | P |
| For loss of those who come not with the years | R |
| Thank God thank God for dreams | E |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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