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 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 caroled 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 grey 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 their 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 Jane Bronta
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