Confused Dreams Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA BCB CDC DED EBE BFB FDB DGG| O strange dim other world revealed to us | A |
| Beginning there where ends reality | B |
| Lying 'twixt life and death and populous | A |
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| With souls from either sphere now enter we | B |
| Thy twisted paths Barred is the silver gate | C |
| But the wild carven doors of ivory | B |
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| Spring noiselessly apart between them straight | C |
| Flies forth a cloud of nameless shadowy things | D |
| With harpies imps and monsters small and great | C |
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| Blurring the thick air with darkening wings | D |
| All humors of the blood and brain take shape | E |
| And fright us with our own imaginings | D |
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| A trouble weighs upon us no escape | E |
| From this unnatural region can there be | B |
| Fixed eyes stare on us wide mouths grin and gape | E |
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| Familiar faces out of reach we see | B |
| Fain would we scream to shatter with a cry | F |
| The tangled woof of hideous fantasy | B |
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| When lo the air grows clear a soft fair sky | F |
| Shines over head sharp pain dissolves in peace | D |
| Beneath the silver archway quietly | B |
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| We float away all troublous visions cease | D |
| By a strange sense of joy we are possessed | G |
| Body and spirit soothed in perfect rest | G |
Emma Lazarus
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