A Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JEKE GBLB MENE| I dreamed that I ws dead and crossed the heavens | A |
| Heavens after heavens with burning feet and swift | B |
| And cried O God where art Thou I left one | C |
| On earth whose burden I would pray Thee lift | B |
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| I was so dead I wondered at no thing | D |
| Not even that the angels slowly turned | E |
| Their faces speechless as I hurried by | F |
| Beneath my feet the golden pavements burned | E |
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| Nor at the first that I could not find God | G |
| Because the heavens stretched endlessly like space | H |
| At last a terror siezed my very soul | I |
| I seemed alone in all the crowded place | H |
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| Then sudden one compassionate cried out | J |
| Though like the rest his face from me he turned | E |
| As I were one no angel might regard | K |
| Beneath my feet the golden pavements burned | E |
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| No moew in heaven than earth will he find God | G |
| Who does not know his loving mercy swift | B |
| But waits the moment consummate and ripe | L |
| Each burden from each human soul to lift | B |
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| Though I was dead I died again for shame | M |
| Lonely to flee from heaven again I turned | E |
| The ranks of angels looked away from me | N |
| Beneath my feet the golden pavements burned | E |
Helen Hunt Jackson
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