The Dream Of Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKCKC HLHLDHDH MNMNOGOG PGPGQRQSI'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 |
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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 |
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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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