Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE FFGHIID JJKKLLD AAMMLLD| Because her eyes were far too deep | A |
| And holy for a laugh to leap | A |
| Across the brink where sorrow tried | B |
| To drown within the amber tide | B |
| Because the looks whose ripples kissed | C |
| The trembling lids through tender mist | C |
| Were dazzled with a radiant gleam | D |
| Because of this I called her 'Dream ' | E |
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| Because the roses growing wild | F |
| About her features when she smiled | F |
| Were ever dewed with tears that fell | G |
| With tenderness ineffable | H |
| Because her lips might spill a kiss | I |
| That dripping in a world like this | I |
| Would tincture death's myrrh bitter stream | D |
| To sweetness so I called her 'Dream ' | - |
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| Because I could not understand | J |
| The magic touches of a hand | J |
| That seemed beneath her strange control | K |
| To smooth the plumage of the soul | K |
| And calm it till with folded wings | L |
| It half forgot its flutterings | L |
| And nestled in her palm did seem | D |
| To trill a song that called her 'Dream ' | - |
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| Because I saw her in a sleep | A |
| As dark and desolate and deep | A |
| And fleeting as the taunting night | M |
| That flings a vision of delight | M |
| To some lorn martyr as he lies | L |
| In slumber ere the day he dies | L |
| Because she vanished like a gleam | D |
| Of glory do I call her 'Dream ' | - |
James Whitcomb Riley
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