Dream Road Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I took the road again last nightA
On which my boyhood's hills look downB
The old road leading from the townB
The village there below the heightA
Its cottage homes all huddled brownB
Each with its blur of lightA
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The old road full of ruts that leadsC
A winding streak of limestone greyD
Over the hills and far awayD
That's crowded here by arms of weedsC
And elbows of railfence aswayD
With flowers that no one heedsC
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That's dungeoned here by rocks and treesE
And maundered to by waters thereF
Lifted into the free wild airF
Of meadow land serenitiesE
The old road stretching far and fairF
To where my tired heart seesE
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That says 'Come take me for a mileG
And let me show you mysteriesE
The things the yellow moon there seesE
And those few stars that 'round her smileG
Come take me now you are at easeE
And walk with me a while '-
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And I I took it at its wordH
And friendships clothed in olden guiseE
Walked with me and as I surmiseE
Old dreams for twenty years unheardH
And love who gazed into my eyesE
As once when youth adoredI
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And voices vocal silencesE
And visions that my youth had seenJ
Slipped from each side in silvery greenJ
And spoke to me in memoriesE
And recollections smiled betweenJ
My tear wet face and treesE
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Enchantment walked by field and farmK
And whispered me on either sideL
And where the fallows broadened wideL
Dim mystery waved a moon white armK
Or from the woodland moonbeam eyedL
Beckoned a filmy formM
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Spirits of wind and starlight woveN
From fern to fern a drowsy danceE
Or o'er the wood stream hung a tranceE
And from the leaves that dreamed aboveO
The elfin dew dropped many a lanceE
Of light and glimmering droveN
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Star arrows through the warmth and muskP
That sparkled on the moss and loamQ
And shook from bells of wildflower foamQ
The bee like music of the duskP
And rimmed with spars the lily's domeQ
And morning glory's tuskP
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And soft as cobwebs I beheldL
The moths they say that fairies useE
As coursers come by ones and twosE
From stables of the blossoms belledL
While busily among the dewsE
Where croaked the toad and swelledL
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The nimble spider climbed his threadL
Or diagramed a dim designR
Or flung above a slender lineR
To launder dews on OverheadL
An insect drew its dagger fineR
And stabbed the stillness deadL
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And there far at the lane's dark endL
A light showed like a glow worm lampS
And through the darkness summer dampS
An old rose garden seemed to sendL
Sweet word to me as of a campS
Of dreams around the bendL
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And there a gate whereat mid deepsE
Of honeysuckle dewinessE
She stood whose lips were mine to pressE
How long ago for whom still leapsE
My heart with longing and no lessE
With passion here that sleepsE
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The smiling face of girlhood eyesE
Of wine warm brown and heavy hairF
Auburn as autumn in his lairF
Took me again with swift surpriseE
As oft they took me coming thereF
In days of bygone tiesE
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The cricket and the katydidL
Pierced silence with their stinging soundsE
The firefly went its golden roundsE
Where lifting slow one sleepy lidL
The baby rosebud dreamed and moundsE
Of lilies breathed half hidL
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The white moon waded through a cloudL
Like some pale woman through a poolT
And in the darkness close and coolT
I felt a form against me bowedL
Her breast to mine and deep and fullU
Her maiden heart beat loudL
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I never dreamed it was a trickV
That fancy played me memoryW
And moonlight Yet it well may beW
The old road too that night was quickV
With dreams that were realityW
To every stone and stickV
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For instantly when overheadL
The moon swam there where soft had gleamedL
That vision now no creature seemedL
Only a ruined house and shedL
Was it a dream the old road dreamedL
Or I of her long deadL

Madison Julius Cawein



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