An Old Picture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABCB DEDEFBGB HDHDEBCB EIEJKBKB| THERE are times when a dream delicious | A |
| Steals into a musing hour | B |
| Like a face with love capricious | A |
| That peeps from a woodland bower | B |
| And one dear scene comes changeless | A |
| A wooded hill and a river | B |
| A deep cool bend where the lilies end | C |
| And the elm tree shadows quiver | B |
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| And I lie on the brink there dreaming | D |
| That the life I live is a dream | E |
| That the real is but the seeming | D |
| And the true is the sun flecked stream | E |
| Beneath me the perch and the bream sail past | F |
| In the dim cool depths of the river | B |
| The struggling fly breaks the mirrored sky | G |
| And the elm tree shadows quiver | B |
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| There are voices of children away on the hill | H |
| There are bees thro' the flag flowers humming | D |
| The lighter man calls to the lock and the mill | H |
| On the farther side is drumming | D |
| And I sink to sleep in my dream of a dream | E |
| In the grass by the brink of a river | B |
| Where the voices blend and the lilies end | C |
| And the elm tree shadows quiver | B |
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| Like a gift from the past is the kindly dream | E |
| For the sorrow and passion and pain | I |
| Are adrift like the leaves on the breast of the stream | E |
| And the child life comes again | J |
| O the sweet sweet pain of a joy that died | K |
| Of a pain that is joy forever | B |
| O the life that died in the stormy tide | K |
| That was once my sun flecked river | B |
John Boyle O'reilly
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