Only A Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEEFF AGGHHIIJJ AKKLLMNEE AOPQQBBA| Only a dream | A |
| Her head is bent | B |
| Over the keys of the instrument | C |
| While her trembling fingers go astray | D |
| In the foolish tune she tries to play | D |
| He smiles in his heart though his deep sad eyes | E |
| Never change to a glad surprise | E |
| As he finds the answer he seeks confessed | F |
| In glowing features and heaving breast | F |
| - | |
| Only a dream | A |
| Though the fete is grand | G |
| And a hundred hearts at her command | G |
| She takes no part for her soul is sick | H |
| Of the Coquette's art and the Serpent's trick | H |
| She someway feels she would like to fling | I |
| Her sins away as a robe and spring | I |
| Up like a lily pure and white | J |
| And bloom alone for HIM to night | J |
| - | |
| Only a dream | A |
| That the fancy weaves | K |
| The lids unfold like the rose's leaves | K |
| And the upraised eyes are moist and mild | L |
| As the prayerful eyes of a drowsy child | L |
| Does she remember the spell they once | M |
| Wrought in the past a few short months | N |
| Haply not yet her lover's eyes | E |
| Never change to the glad surprise | E |
| - | |
| Only a dream | A |
| He winds her form | O |
| Close in the coil of his curving arm | P |
| And whirls her away in a gust of sound | Q |
| As wild and sweet as the poets found | Q |
| In the paradise where the silken tent | B |
| Of the Persian blooms in the Orient | B |
| While ever the chords of the music seem | A |
| Whispering sadly 'Only a dream ' | - |
James Whitcomb Riley
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