A Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB DDDEFGGE HHHIHHHI AAAJFGGJ CCCCHHHC H H HHHD| I dreamed I was a spider | A |
| A big fat hungry spider | A |
| A lusty rusty spider | A |
| With a dozen palsied limbs | B |
| With a dozen limbs that dangled | C |
| Where three wretched flies were tangled | C |
| And their buzzing wings were strangled | C |
| In the middle of their hymns | B |
| - | |
| And I mocked them like a demon | D |
| A demoniacal demon | D |
| Who delights to be a demon | D |
| For the sake of sin alone | E |
| And with fondly false embraces | F |
| Did I weave my mystic laces | G |
| Round their horror stricken faces | G |
| Till I muffled every groan | E |
| - | |
| And I smiled to see them weeping | H |
| For to see an insect weeping | H |
| Sadly sorrowfully weeping | H |
| Fattens every spider's mirth | I |
| And to note a fly's heart quaking | H |
| And with anguish ever aching | H |
| Till you see it slowly breaking | H |
| Is the sweetest thing on earth | I |
| - | |
| I experienced a pleasure | A |
| Such a highly flavored pleasure | A |
| Such intoxicating pleasure | A |
| That I drank of it like wine | J |
| And my mortal soul engages | F |
| That no spider on the pages | G |
| Of the history of ages | G |
| Felt a rapture more divine | J |
| - | |
| I careened around and capered | C |
| Madly mystically capered | C |
| For three days and nights I capered | C |
| Round my web in wild delight | C |
| Till with fierce ambition burning | H |
| And an inward thirst and yearning | H |
| I hastened my returning | H |
| With a fiendish appetite | C |
| - | |
| And I found my victims dying | H |
| 'Ha ' they whispered 'we are dying ' | - |
| Faintly whispered 'we are dying | H |
| And our earthly course is run ' | - |
| And the scene was so impressing | H |
| That I breathed a special blessing | H |
| As I killed them with caressing | H |
| And devoured them one by one | D |
James Whitcomb Riley
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