A Dream Of Waking Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GDHD IJIJ KLKL MNMN GOGO DPDP HNHN QRSR TUTU VWVW XYXYA 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 |
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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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