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 E2F2E2F2On a sunny brae alone I lay | A |
One summer afternoon | B |
It was the marriage time of May | A |
With her young lover June | B |
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From her mother's heart seemed loath to part | C |
That queen of bridal charms | D |
But her father smiled on the fairest child | E |
He ever held in his arms | D |
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The trees did wave their plumy crests | F |
The glad birds carolled clear | G |
And I of all the wedding guests | F |
Was only sullen there | H |
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There was not one but wished to shun | I |
My aspect void of cheer | G |
The very gray rocks looking on | J |
Asked What do you here | K |
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And I could utter no reply | L |
In sooth I did not know | M |
Why I had brought a clouded eye | L |
To greet the general glow | M |
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So resting on a heathy bank | N |
I took my heart to me | O |
And we together sadly sank | N |
Into a reverie | O |
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We thought When winter comes again | P |
Where will these bright things be | O |
All vanished like a vision vain | Q |
An unreal mockery | O |
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The birds that now so blithely sing | R |
Through deserts frozen dry | L |
Poor spectres of the perished spring | R |
In famished troops will fly | L |
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And why should we be glad at all | S |
The leaf is hardly green | T |
Before a token of its fall | S |
Is on the surface seen | T |
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Now whether it were really so | M |
I never could be sure | U |
But as in fit of peevish woe | M |
I stretched me on the moor | U |
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A thousand thousand gleaming fires | V |
Seemed kindling in the air | H |
A thousand thousand silvery lyres | V |
Resounded far and near | G |
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Methought the very breath I breathed | W |
Was full of sparks divine | X |
And all my heather couch was wreathed | W |
By that celestial shine | X |
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And while the wide earth echoing rung | Y |
To that strange minstrelsy | V |
The little glittering spirits sung | Y |
Or seemed to sing to me | O |
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O mortal mortal let them die | W |
Let time and tears destroy | Z |
That we may overflow the sky | W |
With universal joy | Z |
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Let grief distract the sufferer's breast | W |
And night obscure his way | A |
They hasten him to endless rest | W |
And everlasting day | A |
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To thee the world is like a tomb | A2 |
A desert's naked shore | B2 |
To us in unimagined bloom | A2 |
It brightens more and more | B2 |
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And could we lift the veil and give | C2 |
One brief glimpse to thine eye | W |
Thou wouldst rejoice for those that live | D2 |
BECAUSE they live to die | W |
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The music ceased the noonday dream | E2 |
Like dream of night withdrew | F2 |
But Fancy still will sometimes deem | E2 |
Her fond creation true | F2 |
Emily Bronte
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