The Dream Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD EFGFEF HIHIHI JKJKJK LMLMLM NONONO| There is a place I know it well | A |
| Where beech trees crowd into a gloom | B |
| And where a twinkling woodland well | A |
| Flings from a rock a rippling plume | B |
| And like a Faun beneath a spell | A |
| The silence breathes of beam and bloom | B |
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| And here it was I met with her | C |
| The child I never hoped to see | D |
| Who long had been heart's comforter | C |
| And soul's companion unto me | D |
| Telling me oft of myths that were | C |
| And of far faerylands to be | D |
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| She stood there smiling by the pool | E |
| The cascade made below the rocks | F |
| Innocent naked beautiful | G |
| The frail gerardia in her locks | F |
| A flower elfin sweet and cool | E |
| Freckled as faery four o clocks | F |
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| Her eyes were rain bright and her hair | H |
| An amber gleam like that which tips | I |
| The golden leaves when Fall comes fair | H |
| And twin red berries were her lips | I |
| Her beauty pure and young and bare | H |
| Shone like a star from breasts to hips | I |
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| Oft had I seen her thus of old | J |
| In dreams where she played many parts | K |
| A form possessing in its mold | J |
| The high perfection of all Arts | K |
| With all the hopes to which men hold | J |
| And loves for which they break their hearts | K |
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| And she was mine Within her face | L |
| I read' her soul Then while she smiled | M |
| A sudden wind swept through the place | L |
| And she was gone My heart beat wild | M |
| The leaves shook and behold no trace | L |
| Was there of her the faery child | M |
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| Only a ray of gold that hung | N |
| Above the water and a bough | O |
| Rain bright and berried low that swung | N |
| Yet in my heart of hearts somehow | O |
| I felt I need not search among | N |
| The trees that she was hiding now | O |
Madison Julius Cawein
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