A Dreamer Of Dreams Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE FFGGHHGG IIGGJJKK LLGGMMNNOOPPQQCC RRCCSSCCCCCCDEHe lived beyond men and so stood | A |
Admitted to the brotherhood | A |
Of beauty dreams with which he trod | B |
Companioned like some sylvan god | B |
And oft men wondered when his thought | C |
Made all their knowledge seem as naught | C |
If he like Uther's mystic son | D |
Had not been born for Avalon | E |
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When wandering mid the whispering trees | F |
His soul communed with every breeze | F |
Heard voices calling from the glades | G |
Bloom words of the Leimoniaeds | G |
Or Dryads of the ash and oak | H |
Who syllabled his name and spoke | H |
With him of presences and powers | G |
That glimpsed in sunbeams gloomed in showers | G |
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By every violet hallowed brook | I |
Where every bramble matted nook | I |
Rippled and laughed with water sounds | G |
He walked like one on sainted grounds | G |
Fearing intrusion on the spell | J |
That kept some fountain spirit's well | J |
Or woodland genius sitting where | K |
Red racy berries kissed his hair | K |
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Once when the wind far o'er the hill | L |
Had fall'n and left the wildwood still | L |
For Dawn's dim feet to trail across | G |
Beneath the gnarled boughs on the moss | G |
The air around him golden ripe | M |
With daybreak there with oaten pipe | M |
His eyes beheld the wood god Pan | N |
Goat bearded horned half brute half man | N |
Who shaggy haunched a savage rhyme | O |
Blew in his reed to rudest time | O |
And swollen jowled with rolling eye | P |
Beneath the slowly silvering sky | P |
Whose rose streaked through the forest's roof | Q |
Danced while beneath his boisterous hoof | Q |
The branch was snapped and interfused | C |
Between gnarled roots the moss was bruised | C |
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And often when he wandered through | R |
Old forests at the fall of dew | R |
A new Endymion who sought | C |
A beauty higher than all thought | C |
Some night men said most surely he | S |
Would favored be of deity | S |
That in the holy solitude | C |
Her sudden presence long pursued | C |
Unto his gaze would stand confessed | C |
The awful moonlight of her breast | C |
Come high with majesty and hold | C |
His heart's blood till his heart grew cold | C |
Unpulsed unsinewed all undone | D |
And snatch his soul to Avalon | E |
Madison Julius Cawein
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