Dreams Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKJK CCCC LMLM| Who first said false as dreams Not one who saw | A |
| Into the wild and wondrous world they sway | B |
| No thinker who hath read their mystic law | A |
| No Poet who hath weaved them in his lay | B |
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| Else had he known that through the human breast | C |
| Cross and recross a thousand fleeting gleams | D |
| That passed unnoticed in the day's unrest | C |
| Come out at night like stars in shining dreams | D |
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| That minds too busy or to dull to mark | E |
| The dim suggestions of the noisier hours | F |
| By dreams in the deep silence of the dark | E |
| Are roused at midnight with their folded powers | F |
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| Like that old fount beneath Dodona's oaks | G |
| That dry and voiceless in the garish noon | H |
| When the calm night arose with modest looks | I |
| Caught with full wave the sparkle of the moon | H |
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| If now and then a ghastly shape glide in | J |
| And fright us with its horrid gloom or glee | K |
| It is the ghost of some forgotten sin | J |
| We failed to exorcise on bended knee | K |
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| And that sweet face which only yesternight | C |
| Came to thy solace dreamer did'st thou read | C |
| The blessing in its eyes of tearful light | C |
| Was but the spirit of some gentle deed | C |
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| Each has its lesson for our dreams in sooth | L |
| Come they in shape of demons gods or elves | M |
| Are allegories with deep hearts of truth | L |
| That tell us solemn secrets of ourselves | M |
Henry Timrod
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