Bad Dreams Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBB DEDCC FGFGH IJIJJ KLKLL MNMNN OPOQP RSRSS OOOOO OOOOO OTOTT OTOTU VWVWW XTYTT ZA2ZA2A2 B2OB2OO C2OC2OO D2TD2TT E2ZE2ZZ F2CF2 C

You in the flesh and hereA
Your very self Now waitB
One word May I hope or fearC
Must I speak in love or hateB
Stay while I ruminateB
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The fact and each circumstanceD
Dare you disown Not youE
That vast dome that huge danceD
And the gloom which overgrewC
A possibly festive crewC
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For why should men dance at allF
Why women a crowd of bothG
Unless they are gay Strange ballF
Hands and feet plighting trothG
Yet partners enforced and lothH
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Of who danced there no shapeI
Did I recognize thwart perverseJ
Each grasped each past escapeI
In a whirl or weary or worseJ
Man's sneer met woman's curseJ
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While he and she toiled as ifK
Their guardian set galley slavesL
To supple chained limbs grown stiffK
Unmanacled trulls and knavesL
The lash for who misbehavesL
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And a gloom was all the whileM
Deeper and deeper yetN
O'ergrowing the rank and fileM
Of that army of haters setN
To mimic love's fever fretN
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By the wall side close I creptO
Avoiding the livid mazeP
And safely so far outsteppedO
On a chamber a chapel saysQ
My memory or betraysP
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Closet like kept aloofR
From unseemly witnessingS
What sport made floor and roofR
Of the Devil's palace ringS
While his Damned amused their kingS
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Ay for a low lamp burnedO
And a silence lay aboutO
What I in the midst discernedO
Though dimly till past doubtO
'Twas a sort of throne stood outO
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High seat with steps at leastO
And the topmost step was filledO
By whom What vestured priestO
A stranger to me his guildO
His cult unreconciledO
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To my knowledge how guild and cultO
Are clothed in this world of oursT
I pondered but no resultO
Came to unless that GiaoursT
So worship the Lower PowersT
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When suddenly who enteredO
Who knelt did you guess I sawT
Who raising that face were centredO
Allegiance to love and lawT
So lately off casting aweU
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Down treading reserve awayV
Thrusting respect but mineW
Stands firm firm still shall stayV
Ask Satan for I declineW
To tell what I saw in fineW
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Yet here in the flesh you comeX
Your same self form and faceT
In the eyes mirth still at homeY
On the lips that commonplaceT
Perfection of honest graceT
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Yet your errand is needs must beZ
To palliate well explainA2
Expurgate in some degreeZ
Your soul of its ugly stainA2
Oh you the good in grainA2
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How was it your white took tingeB2
A mere dream never objectO
Sleep leaves a door on hingeB2
Whence soul ere our flesh suspectO
Is off and away detectO
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Her vagaries when loose who canC2
Be she pranksome be she prudeO
Disguise with the day beganC2
With the night ah what ensuedO
From draughts of a drink hell brewedO
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Then She What a queer wild dreamD2
And perhaps the best fun isT
Myself had its fellow I seemD2
Scarce awake from yet 'Twas thisT
Shall I tell you First a kissT
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For the fault was just your ownE2
'Tis myself expect apologyZ
You warned me to let aloneE2
Since our studies were mere philologyZ
That ticklish you said AnthologyZ
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So I dreamed that I passed examF2
Till a question posed me soreC
'Who translated this epigramF2
By an author we best ignore '-
And I answered 'Hannah More'C

Robert Browning



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