The Dream Of Dread Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCB DEDEDE FBFBFB GHGHGI JKLMLM BNBOBN PQPQPQ| I have lain for an hour or twain | A |
| Awake and the tempest is beating | B |
| On the roof and the sleet on the pane | A |
| And the winds are three enemies meeting | B |
| And I listen and hear it again | C |
| My name in the silence repeating | B |
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| Then dumbness of death that must slay | D |
| Till the midnight is burst like a bubble | E |
| And out of the darkness a ray | D |
| 'T is she the all beautiful double | E |
| With a face like the breaking of day | D |
| Eyes dark with the magic of trouble | E |
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| I move not she lies with her lips | F |
| At mine and I feel she is drawing | B |
| My life from my heart to their tips | F |
| My heart where the horror is gnawing | B |
| My life in a thousand slow sips | F |
| My flesh with her sorcery awing | B |
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| She binds me with merciless eyes | G |
| She drinks of my blood and I hear it | H |
| Drain up with a shudder and rise | G |
| To the lips like the serpent's that steer it | H |
| And she lies and she laughs as she lies | G |
| Saying Lo thy affinitized spirit | I |
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| Then I hear as if torturing swords | J |
| Had shivered and torments had grated | K |
| Hoarse iron deep under and words | L |
| As of sins that howled out and awaited | M |
| A fiend who lashed into their hords | L |
| And a demon who lacerated | M |
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| And I shriek and lie clammy and stark | B |
| As the curse of a devil mounts higher | N |
| Up out of damnation and dark | B |
| Up a hobble of hoofs that is dire | O |
| I feel that his mouth is a spark | B |
| His features of filth and of fire | N |
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| To thy body's corruption thy grave | P |
| Thy hell from which thou hast stolen | Q |
| And a blackness rolls down like a wave | P |
| With a clamor of tongues that are swollen | Q |
| And I feel that my flesh is the slave | P |
| Of a vampire diakka eidolon | Q |
Madison Julius Cawein
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