A Dreamer Of Dreams Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE FFGGHHGG IIGGJJKK LLGGMMNNOOPPQQCC RRCCSSCCCCCCDE| He 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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