Dreams Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGGHI| Dreams are but interludes which Fancy makes | A |
| When monarch Reason sleeps this mimic wakes | A |
| Compounds a medley of disjointed things | B |
| A mob of cobblers and a court of kings | B |
| Light fumes are merry grosser fumes are sad | C |
| Both are the reasonable soul run mad | C |
| And many monstrous forms in sleep we see | D |
| That neither were nor are nor e'er can be | D |
| Sometimes forgotten things long cast behind | E |
| Rush forward in the brain and come to mind | E |
| The nurse's legends are for truths received | F |
| And the man dreams but what the boy believed | F |
| Sometimes we but rehearse a former play | G |
| The night restores our actions done by day | G |
| As hounds in sleep will open for their prey | G |
| In short the farce of dreams is of a piece | H |
| Chimeras all and more absurd or less | I |
John Dryden
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