Dream Road Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBABA CDDCDC EFFEFE GEEGE HEEHEI EJJEJE KLLKLM NEEOEN PQQPQP LEELEL LRRLRL LSSLSL EEEEEE EFFEFE LEELEL LTTLUL VWWVWV LLLLLLI took the road again last night | A |
On which my boyhood's hills look down | B |
The old road leading from the town | B |
The village there below the height | A |
Its cottage homes all huddled brown | B |
Each with its blur of light | A |
- | |
The old road full of ruts that leads | C |
A winding streak of limestone grey | D |
Over the hills and far away | D |
That's crowded here by arms of weeds | C |
And elbows of railfence asway | D |
With flowers that no one heeds | C |
- | |
That's dungeoned here by rocks and trees | E |
And maundered to by waters there | F |
Lifted into the free wild air | F |
Of meadow land serenities | E |
The old road stretching far and fair | F |
To where my tired heart sees | E |
- | |
That says 'Come take me for a mile | G |
And let me show you mysteries | E |
The things the yellow moon there sees | E |
And those few stars that 'round her smile | G |
Come take me now you are at ease | E |
And walk with me a while ' | - |
- | |
And I I took it at its word | H |
And friendships clothed in olden guise | E |
Walked with me and as I surmise | E |
Old dreams for twenty years unheard | H |
And love who gazed into my eyes | E |
As once when youth adored | I |
- | |
And voices vocal silences | E |
And visions that my youth had seen | J |
Slipped from each side in silvery green | J |
And spoke to me in memories | E |
And recollections smiled between | J |
My tear wet face and trees | E |
- | |
Enchantment walked by field and farm | K |
And whispered me on either side | L |
And where the fallows broadened wide | L |
Dim mystery waved a moon white arm | K |
Or from the woodland moonbeam eyed | L |
Beckoned a filmy form | M |
- | |
Spirits of wind and starlight wove | N |
From fern to fern a drowsy dance | E |
Or o'er the wood stream hung a trance | E |
And from the leaves that dreamed above | O |
The elfin dew dropped many a lance | E |
Of light and glimmering drove | N |
- | |
Star arrows through the warmth and musk | P |
That sparkled on the moss and loam | Q |
And shook from bells of wildflower foam | Q |
The bee like music of the dusk | P |
And rimmed with spars the lily's dome | Q |
And morning glory's tusk | P |
- | |
And soft as cobwebs I beheld | L |
The moths they say that fairies use | E |
As coursers come by ones and twos | E |
From stables of the blossoms belled | L |
While busily among the dews | E |
Where croaked the toad and swelled | L |
- | |
The nimble spider climbed his thread | L |
Or diagramed a dim design | R |
Or flung above a slender line | R |
To launder dews on Overhead | L |
An insect drew its dagger fine | R |
And stabbed the stillness dead | L |
- | |
And there far at the lane's dark end | L |
A light showed like a glow worm lamp | S |
And through the darkness summer damp | S |
An old rose garden seemed to send | L |
Sweet word to me as of a camp | S |
Of dreams around the bend | L |
- | |
And there a gate whereat mid deeps | E |
Of honeysuckle dewiness | E |
She stood whose lips were mine to press | E |
How long ago for whom still leaps | E |
My heart with longing and no less | E |
With passion here that sleeps | E |
- | |
The smiling face of girlhood eyes | E |
Of wine warm brown and heavy hair | F |
Auburn as autumn in his lair | F |
Took me again with swift surprise | E |
As oft they took me coming there | F |
In days of bygone ties | E |
- | |
The cricket and the katydid | L |
Pierced silence with their stinging sounds | E |
The firefly went its golden rounds | E |
Where lifting slow one sleepy lid | L |
The baby rosebud dreamed and mounds | E |
Of lilies breathed half hid | L |
- | |
The white moon waded through a cloud | L |
Like some pale woman through a pool | T |
And in the darkness close and cool | T |
I felt a form against me bowed | L |
Her breast to mine and deep and full | U |
Her maiden heart beat loud | L |
- | |
I never dreamed it was a trick | V |
That fancy played me memory | W |
And moonlight Yet it well may be | W |
The old road too that night was quick | V |
With dreams that were reality | W |
To every stone and stick | V |
- | |
For instantly when overhead | L |
The moon swam there where soft had gleamed | L |
That vision now no creature seemed | L |
Only a ruined house and shed | L |
Was it a dream the old road dreamed | L |
Or I of her long dead | L |
Madison Julius Cawein
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Dream Road poem by Madison Julius Cawein
Best Poems of Madison Julius Cawein