A Dream That Was Not All A Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON JAPA QRSR JETE CUVU| Through the half curtained window stole | A |
| An Autumn sunset's glow | B |
| As languid on my couch I lay | C |
| With pulses weak and low | B |
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| And then methought a presence stood | D |
| With shining feet and fair | E |
| Amid the waves of golden light | F |
| That rippled through the air | E |
| - | |
| And laid upon my heaving breast | G |
| With earnest glance and true | H |
| A babe whose fair and gentle brow | I |
| No shade of sorrow knew | H |
| - | |
| A solemn joy was in my heart | J |
| Immortal life was given | K |
| To Earth upon her battle field | L |
| To discipline for Heaven | K |
| - | |
| Soft music thrilled the quiet room | M |
| An unseen host were nigh | N |
| Who left the infant pilgrim at | O |
| The threshold of our sky | N |
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| A new strange love woke in my heart | J |
| Defying all control | A |
| As on the soft air rose and fell | P |
| That birth hymn for a soul | A |
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| And now again the Autumn skies | Q |
| As on that evening shine | R |
| When from a trance of agony | S |
| I woke to joy divine | R |
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| That boundless love is in my heart | J |
| That birth hymn on the air | E |
| I clasp in mine with grateful faith | T |
| A tiny hand in prayer | E |
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| And bless the God who guides my way | C |
| That mid this world so wide | U |
| I day by day am walking with | V |
| An angel by my side | U |
Mary Gardiner Horsford
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