The Dream Of Christ Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD EFEFEF GHGHGH IGIGIG JKJJJJ JGJGJG JGJGJG LJMJLJ| I saw her twins of eyelids listless swoon | A |
| Mesmeric eyes | B |
| Like the mild lapsing of a lulling tune | A |
| On wide surprise | B |
| While slow the graceful presence of a moon | A |
| Mellowed the purple skies | B |
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| And had she dreamed or had in fancy gone | C |
| As one who sought | D |
| To hail the influx of a godly dawn | C |
| Of heavenly thought | D |
| Trod trembling o'er old sainted hill and lawn | C |
| With intense angels fraught | D |
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| Sailed thro' majestic domes of the deep night | E |
| By isles of stars | F |
| Wand'ring like some pure blessing warm with light | E |
| From worldly jars | F |
| To the high halls of morning pearly white | E |
| And heaped with golden bars | F |
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| Past temples vast deluged with sandy seas | G |
| Whose ruins stand | H |
| Like bleaching bones of dead monstrosities | G |
| Crashed to the land | H |
| Stupendous homes of cursed idolatries | G |
| Fallen to dust and sand | H |
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| Ugly and bestial gods caked thick with gold | I |
| Their hideousness | G |
| Blaspheming Christ 'mid shattered altars rolled | I |
| To rottenness | G |
| Their slaves abolished and their priests of old | I |
| Trodden to nothingness | G |
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| Thro' Syrian plains curtained with curling mist | J |
| The grass she trailed | K |
| Where the shy floweret by the dew drop kissed | J |
| Sweet blushing quailed | J |
| And drowned in purple vales of amethyst | J |
| The moon mad bulbuls wailed | J |
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| On glimmering wolds had seemed to hear the bleat | J |
| Of folded flocks | G |
| Seen broad browed sages pass with sandaled feet | J |
| And hoary locks | G |
| While swimming in a bath of molten heat | J |
| A great star glorious rocks | G |
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| In fancy o'er a beaming baby bent | J |
| Cradled amiss | G |
| In a rude manger on its brow to print | J |
| One holy kiss | G |
| While down the slant winds faint aromas went | J |
| And anthems deep of bliss | G |
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| And then she woke The winter moon above | L |
| Burst on her sight | J |
| And with strange sweetness all her dream was wove | M |
| In its far flight | J |
| For jubilant bells rocked booming peace and love | L |
| Down all the aisles of night | J |
Madison Julius Cawein
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