A Dream Of Waking Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GDHD IJIJ KLKL MNMN GOGO DPDP HNHN QRSR TUTU VWVW XYXY| A child was born in sin and shame | A |
| Wronged by his very birth | B |
| Without a home without a name | A |
| One over in the earth | B |
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| No wifely triumph he inspired | C |
| Allayed no husband's fear | D |
| Intruder bare whom none desired | C |
| He had a welcome drear | D |
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| Heaven's beggar all but turned adrift | E |
| For knocking at earth's gate | F |
| His mother like an evil gift | E |
| Shunned him with sickly hate | F |
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| And now the mistress on her knee | G |
| The unloved baby bore | D |
| The while the servant sullenly | H |
| Prepared to leave her door | D |
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| Her eggs are dear to mother dove | I |
| Her chickens to the hen | J |
| All young ones bring with them their love | I |
| Of sheep or goats or men | J |
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| This one lone child shall not have come | K |
| In vain for love to seek | L |
| Let mother's hardened heart be dumb | K |
| A sister babe will speak | L |
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| Mother keep baby keep him so | M |
| Don't let him go away | N |
| But darling if his mother go | M |
| Poor baby cannot stay | N |
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| He's crying mother don't you see | G |
| He wants to stay with you | O |
| No child he does not care for me | G |
| Do keep him mother do | O |
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| For his own mother he would cry | D |
| He's hungry now I think | P |
| Give him to me and let me try | D |
| If I can make him drink | P |
| - | |
| Susan would hurt him Mother will | H |
| Let the poor baby stay | N |
| Her mother's heart grew sore but still | H |
| Baby must go away | N |
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| The red lip trembled the slow tears | Q |
| Came darkening in her eyes | R |
| Pressed on her heart a weight of fears | S |
| That sought not ease in cries | R |
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| 'Twas torture must not be endured | T |
| A too outrageous grief | U |
| Was there an ill could not be cured | T |
| She would find some relief | U |
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| All round her universe she pried | V |
| No dawn began to break | W |
| In prophet agony she cried | V |
| Mother when shall we wake | W |
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| O insight born of torture's might | X |
| Such grief can only seem | Y |
| Rise o'er the hills eternal light | X |
| And melt the earthly dream | Y |
George Macdonald
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