The Dream Of Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKCKC HLHLDHDH MNMNOGOG PGPGQRQS| I've had the heart ache many times | A |
| At the mere mention of a name | B |
| I've never woven in my rhymes | A |
| Though from it inspiration came | B |
| It is in truth a holy thing | C |
| Life cherished from the world apart | D |
| A dove that never tries its wing | C |
| But broods and nestles in the heart | D |
| - | |
| That name of melody recalls | E |
| Her gentle look and winning ways | F |
| Whose portrait hangs on memory's walls | E |
| In the fond light of other days | F |
| In the dream land of Poetry | G |
| Reclining in its leafy bowers | H |
| Her bright eyes in the stars I see | G |
| And her sweet semblance in the flowers | H |
| - | |
| Her artless dalliance and grace | I |
| The joy that lighted up her brow | J |
| The sweet expression of her face | I |
| Her form it stands before me now | J |
| And I can fancy that I hear | K |
| The woodland songs she used to sing | C |
| Which stole to my attending ear | K |
| Like the first harbingers of spring | C |
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| The beauty of the earth was hers | H |
| And hers the purity of heaven | L |
| Alone of all her worshippers | H |
| To me her maiden vows were given | L |
| They little know the human heart | D |
| Who think such love with time expires | H |
| Once kindled it will ne'er depart | D |
| But burn through life with all its fires | H |
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| We parted doomed no more to meet | M |
| The blow fell with a stunning power | N |
| And yet my pulse will strangely beat | M |
| At the remembrance of that hour | N |
| But time and change their healing brought | O |
| And years have passed in seeming glee | G |
| But still alone of her I've thought | O |
| Who's now a memory to me | G |
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| There may be many who will deem | P |
| This strain a wayward youthful folly | G |
| To be derided as a dream | P |
| Born of the poet's melancholy | G |
| The wealth of worlds if it were mine | Q |
| With all that follows in its train | R |
| I would with gratitude resign | Q |
| To dream that dream of love again | S |
George Pope Morris
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