A Day Dream. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFH IGJK LMLM NONO POQO RLRL STST MUMU VHVG WXWX YVYO WZWZ WAWA A2B2A2B2 C2WD2W E2F2E2F2

On a sunny brae alone I layA
One summer afternoonB
It was the marriage time of MayA
With her young lover JuneB
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From her mother's heart seemed loath to partC
That queen of bridal charmsD
But her father smiled on the fairest childE
He ever held in his armsD
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The trees did wave their plumy crestsF
The glad birds carolled clearG
And I of all the wedding guestsF
Was only sullen thereH
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There was not one but wished to shunI
My aspect void of cheerG
The very gray rocks looking onJ
Asked What do you hereK
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And I could utter no replyL
In sooth I did not knowM
Why I had brought a clouded eyeL
To greet the general glowM
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So resting on a heathy bankN
I took my heart to meO
And we together sadly sankN
Into a reverieO
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We thought When winter comes againP
Where will these bright things beO
All vanished like a vision vainQ
An unreal mockeryO
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The birds that now so blithely singR
Through deserts frozen dryL
Poor spectres of the perished springR
In famished troops will flyL
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And why should we be glad at allS
The leaf is hardly greenT
Before a token of its fallS
Is on the surface seenT
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Now whether it were really soM
I never could be sureU
But as in fit of peevish woeM
I stretched me on the moorU
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A thousand thousand gleaming firesV
Seemed kindling in the airH
A thousand thousand silvery lyresV
Resounded far and nearG
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Methought the very breath I breathedW
Was full of sparks divineX
And all my heather couch was wreathedW
By that celestial shineX
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And while the wide earth echoing rungY
To that strange minstrelsyV
The little glittering spirits sungY
Or seemed to sing to meO
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O mortal mortal let them dieW
Let time and tears destroyZ
That we may overflow the skyW
With universal joyZ
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Let grief distract the sufferer's breastW
And night obscure his wayA
They hasten him to endless restW
And everlasting dayA
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To thee the world is like a tombA2
A desert's naked shoreB2
To us in unimagined bloomA2
It brightens more and moreB2
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And could we lift the veil and giveC2
One brief glimpse to thine eyeW
Thou wouldst rejoice for those that liveD2
BECAUSE they live to dieW
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The music ceased the noonday dreamE2
Like dream of night withdrewF2
But Fancy still will sometimes deemE2
Her fond creation trueF2

Emily Bronte



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