Richard Watson Gilder Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEEC FGFDGHI JBBDJJ KLLKHI| Obiit Nov | A |
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| America grows poorer day by day | B |
| Richer and richer I have heard some say | B |
| They thought of a poor wealth I do not heed | C |
| For one by one the men who dreamed the dream | D |
| That was America and is now no more | E |
| Have gone in flame through that mysterious door | E |
| And scarcely one remains in all our need | C |
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| The dream goes with the dreamer ah beware | F |
| Country of facile silver and of gold | G |
| To slight the gentle strength of a pure prayer | F |
| America all made out of a dream | D |
| A dream of good men in the days of old | G |
| What if the dream should fade and none remain | H |
| To tell your children the old dream again | I |
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| Therefore with laurel and with tears and rue | J |
| Stand by his grave this sad November day | B |
| Sadder that he untimely goes away | B |
| Who sang and wrought so well for that high dream | D |
| We call America the world made new | J |
| New with clean hope and faith and purpose true | J |
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| Gilder your name with each return of Spring | K |
| Shall write itself in the soft April flowers | L |
| And when you hear the murmur of bright showers | L |
| Over your sleep and little lives that sing | K |
| Come back once more know that the rainbowed rain | H |
| Is but our tears saying Come back again | I |
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