My Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEE FFGG HHGG GGGG IIGG GGII JJKK LMGG GGNN IIGG IIGG OOPP QQGG MMRR IIS GGTT IIUV GGI| In my dream methought I trod | A |
| Yesternight a mountain road | B |
| Narrow as Al Sirat's span | C |
| High as eagle's flight it ran | C |
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| Overhead a roof of cloud | D |
| With its weight of thunder bowed | D |
| Underneath to left and right | E |
| Blankness and abysmal night | E |
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| Here and there a wild flower blushed | F |
| Now and then a bird song gushed | F |
| Now and then through rifts of shade | G |
| Stars shone out and sunbeams played | G |
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| But the goodly company | H |
| Walking in that path with me | H |
| One by one the brink o'erslid | G |
| One by one the darkness hid | G |
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| Some with wailing and lament | G |
| Some with cheerful courage went | G |
| But of all who smiled or mourned | G |
| Never one to us returned | G |
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| Anxiously with eye and ear | I |
| Questioning that shadow drear | I |
| Never hand in token stirred | G |
| Never answering voice I heard | G |
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| Steeper darker lo I felt | G |
| From my feet the pathway melt | G |
| Swallowed by the black despair | I |
| And the hungry jaws of air | I |
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| Past the stony throated caves | J |
| Strangled by the wash of waves | J |
| Past the splintered crags I sank | K |
| On a green and flowery bank | K |
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| Soft as fall of thistle down | L |
| Lightly as a cloud is blown | M |
| Soothingly as childhood pressed | G |
| To the bosom of its rest | G |
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| Of the sharp horned rocks instead | G |
| Green the grassy meadows spread | G |
| Bright with waters singing by | N |
| Trees that propped a golden sky | N |
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| Painless trustful sorrow free | I |
| Old lost faces welcomed me | I |
| With whose sweetness of content | G |
| Still expectant hope was blent | G |
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| Waking while the dawning gray | I |
| Slowly brightened into day | I |
| Pondering that vision fled | G |
| Thus unto myself I said | G |
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| 'Steep and hung with clouds of strife | O |
| Is our narrow path of life | O |
| And our death the dreaded fall | P |
| Through the dark awaiting all | P |
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| 'So with painful steps we climb | Q |
| Up the dizzy ways of time | Q |
| Ever in the shadow shed | G |
| By the forecast of our dread | G |
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| 'Dread of mystery solved alone | M |
| Of the untried and unknown | M |
| Yet the end thereof may seem | R |
| Like the falling of my dream | R |
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| 'And this heart consuming care | I |
| All our fears of here or there | I |
| Change and absence loss and death | S |
| Prove but simple lack of faith ' | - |
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| Thou O Most Compassionate | G |
| Who didst stoop to our estate | G |
| Drinking of the cup we drain | T |
| Treading in our path of pain | T |
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| Through the doubt and mystery | I |
| Grant to us thy steps to see | I |
| And the grace to draw from thence | U |
| Larger hope and confidence | V |
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| Show thy vacant tomb and let | G |
| As of old the angels sit | G |
| Whispering by its open door | I |
| 'Fear not He hath gone before ' | - |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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