A Dream Of Sunshine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGHHIIEE JJKKHHLLEE MMHHNNLLEE NNOOEEPQEE RRMMNNSSEE HHTTUUVVEE WWIIHHHHEEI'm weary of this weather and I hanker for the ways | A |
Which people read of in the psalms and preachers paraphrase | A |
The grassy fields the leafy woods the banks where I can lie | B |
And listen to the music of the brook that flutters by | B |
Or by the pond out yonder hear the redwing blackbird's call | C |
Where he makes believe he has a nest but hasn't one at all | C |
And by my side should be a friend a trusty genial friend | D |
With plenteous store of tales galore and natural leaf to lend | D |
Oh how I pine and hanker for the gracious boon of spring | E |
For then I'm going a fishing with John Lyle King | E |
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How like to pigmies will appear creation as we float | F |
Upon the bosom of the tide in a three by thirteen boat | F |
Forgotten all vexations and all vanities shall be | G |
As we cast our cares to windward and our anchor to the lee | G |
Anon the minnow bucket will emit batrachian sobs | H |
And the devil's darning needles shall come wooing of our bobs | H |
The sun shall kiss our noses and the breezes toss our hair | I |
This latter metaphoric we've no fimbriae to spare | I |
And I transported by the bliss shan't do a plaguey thing | E |
But cut the bait and string the fish for John Lyle King | E |
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Or if I angle it will be for bullheads and the like | J |
While he shall fish for gamey bass for pickerel and for pike | J |
I really do not care a rap for all the fish that swim | K |
But it's worth the wealth of Indies just to be along with him | K |
In grassy fields in leafy woods beside the water brooks | H |
And hear him tell of things he's seen or read of in his books | H |
To hear the sweet philosophy that trickles in and out | L |
The while he is discoursing of the things we talk about | L |
A fountain head refreshing a clear perennial spring | E |
Is the genial conversation of John Lyle King | E |
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Should varying winds or shifting tides redound to our despite | M |
In other words should we return all bootless home at night | M |
I'd back him up in anything he had a mind to say | H |
Of mighty bass he'd left behind or lost upon the way | H |
I'd nod assent to every yarn involving piscine game | N |
I'd cross my heart and make my affidavit to the same | N |
For what is friendship but a scheme to help a fellow out | L |
And what a paltry fish or two to make such bones about | L |
Nay Sentiment a mantle of sweet charity would fling | E |
O'er perjuries committed for John Lyle King | E |
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At night when as the camp fire cast a ruddy genial flame | N |
He'd bring his tuneful fiddle out and play upon the same | N |
No diabolic engine this no instrument of sin | O |
No relative at all to that lewd toy the violin | O |
But a godly hoosier fiddle a quaint archaic thing | E |
Full of all the proper melodies our grandmas used to sing | E |
With Bonnie Doon and Nellie Gray and Sitting on the Stile | P |
The Heart Bowed Down the White Cockade and Charming Annie Lisle | Q |
Our hearts would echo and the sombre empyrean ring | E |
Beneath the wizard sorcery of John Lyle King | E |
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The subsequent proceedings should interest me no more | R |
Wrapped in a woolen blanket should I calmly dream and snore | R |
The finny game that swims by day is my supreme delight | M |
And not the scaly game that flies in darkness of the night | M |
Let those who are so minded pursue this latter game | N |
But not repine if they should lose a boodle in the same | N |
For an example to you all one paragon should serve | S |
He towers a very monument to valor and to nerve | S |
No bob tail flush no nine spot high no measly pair can wring | E |
A groan of desperation from John Lyle King | E |
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A truce to badinage I hope far distant is the day | H |
When from these scenes terrestrial our friend shall pass away | H |
We like to hear his cheery voice uplifted in the land | T |
To see his calm benignant face to grasp his honest hand | T |
We like him for his learning his sincerity his truth | U |
His gallantry to woman and his kindliness to youth | U |
For the lenience of his nature for the vigor of his mind | V |
For the fulness of that charity he bears to all mankind | V |
That's why we folks who know him best so reverently cling | E |
And that is why I pen these lines to John Lyle King | E |
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And now adieu a fond adieu to thee O muse of rhyme | W |
I do remand thee to the shades until that happier time | W |
When fields are green and posies gay are budding everywhere | I |
And there's a smell of clover bloom upon the vernal air | I |
When by the pond out yonder the redwing blackbird calls | H |
And distant hills are wed to Spring in veils of water falls | H |
When from his aqueous element the famished pickerel springs | H |
Two hundred feet into the air for butterflies and things | H |
Then come again O gracious muse and teach me how to sing | E |
The glory of a fishing cruise with John Lyle King | E |
Eugene Field
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