On Dreaming Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JKJK LMLM NOPO CICI| When slumber seals our weary eyes | A |
| The busy fancy wakeful keeps | B |
| The scenes which then before us rise | A |
| Prove something in us never sleeps | B |
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| As in another world we seem | C |
| A new creation of our own | D |
| All appears real though a dream | C |
| And all familiar though unknown | D |
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| Sometimes the mind beholds again | E |
| The past day's business in review | F |
| Resumes the pleasure or the pain | G |
| And sometimes all we meet is new | F |
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| What schemes we form what pains we take | H |
| We fight we run we fly we fall | I |
| But all is ended when we wake | H |
| We scarcely then a trace recall | I |
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| But though our dreams are often wild | J |
| Like clouds before the driving storm | K |
| Yet some important may be styl'd | J |
| Sent to admonish or inform | K |
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| What mighty agents have access | L |
| What friends from heav'n or foes from hell | M |
| Our minds to comfort or distress | L |
| When we are sleeping who can tell | M |
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| One thing at least and 'tis enough | N |
| We learn from this surprising fact | O |
| Our dreams afford sufficient proof | P |
| The soul without the flesh can act | O |
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| This life which mortals so esteem | C |
| That many choose it for their all | I |
| They will confess was but a dream | C |
| When 'waken'd by death's awful call | I |
John Newton
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