Dreams. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC A DDEE A FFGG H IICC| I | A |
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| The sweetest dreams it seems to me that we can ever know | B |
| Are those the fancy brings to us of days of long ago | B |
| When rainbow tinted pictures all are like a mirage flung | C |
| Upon the canvas memory weaves of days when we were young | C |
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| II | A |
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| The step may falter eye be dim the brow may wrinkles wear | D |
| And underneath the crumbling mould our friends be sleeping there | D |
| But oh these visions come to us as to the rose the dew | E |
| And while with raptured gaze we look the heart seems ever new | E |
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| III | A |
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| Oh when perhaps at last we're left a laggard on life's stage | F |
| This is the mellowed draught we quaff our longings to assuage | F |
| As sweet as that from Paradise the smiling Houris hand | G |
| The Prophet's faithful followers when at its gates they stand | G |
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| IV | H |
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| If one last prayer were left to me for my declining days | I |
| Its form should be that I might hear the chimes that memory plays | I |
| And when at last upon my grave the wavy grass had sprung | C |
| Some passer by could truly say His heart was ever young | C |
George W. Doneghy
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