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 here | A |
| Your very self Now wait | B |
| One word May I hope or fear | C |
| Must I speak in love or hate | B |
| Stay while I ruminate | B |
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| The fact and each circumstance | D |
| Dare you disown Not you | E |
| That vast dome that huge dance | D |
| And the gloom which overgrew | C |
| A possibly festive crew | C |
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| For why should men dance at all | F |
| Why women a crowd of both | G |
| Unless they are gay Strange ball | F |
| Hands and feet plighting troth | G |
| Yet partners enforced and loth | H |
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| Of who danced there no shape | I |
| Did I recognize thwart perverse | J |
| Each grasped each past escape | I |
| In a whirl or weary or worse | J |
| Man's sneer met woman's curse | J |
| - | |
| While he and she toiled as if | K |
| Their guardian set galley slaves | L |
| To supple chained limbs grown stiff | K |
| Unmanacled trulls and knaves | L |
| The lash for who misbehaves | L |
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| And a gloom was all the while | M |
| Deeper and deeper yet | N |
| O'ergrowing the rank and file | M |
| Of that army of haters set | N |
| To mimic love's fever fret | N |
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| By the wall side close I crept | O |
| Avoiding the livid maze | P |
| And safely so far outstepped | O |
| On a chamber a chapel says | Q |
| My memory or betrays | P |
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| Closet like kept aloof | R |
| From unseemly witnessing | S |
| What sport made floor and roof | R |
| Of the Devil's palace ring | S |
| While his Damned amused their king | S |
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| Ay for a low lamp burned | O |
| And a silence lay about | O |
| What I in the midst discerned | O |
| Though dimly till past doubt | O |
| 'Twas a sort of throne stood out | O |
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| High seat with steps at least | O |
| And the topmost step was filled | O |
| By whom What vestured priest | O |
| A stranger to me his guild | O |
| His cult unreconciled | O |
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| To my knowledge how guild and cult | O |
| Are clothed in this world of ours | T |
| I pondered but no result | O |
| Came to unless that Giaours | T |
| So worship the Lower Powers | T |
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| When suddenly who entered | O |
| Who knelt did you guess I saw | T |
| Who raising that face were centred | O |
| Allegiance to love and law | T |
| So lately off casting awe | U |
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| Down treading reserve away | V |
| Thrusting respect but mine | W |
| Stands firm firm still shall stay | V |
| Ask Satan for I decline | W |
| To tell what I saw in fine | W |
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| Yet here in the flesh you come | X |
| Your same self form and face | T |
| In the eyes mirth still at home | Y |
| On the lips that commonplace | T |
| Perfection of honest grace | T |
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| Yet your errand is needs must be | Z |
| To palliate well explain | A2 |
| Expurgate in some degree | Z |
| Your soul of its ugly stain | A2 |
| Oh you the good in grain | A2 |
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| How was it your white took tinge | B2 |
| A mere dream never object | O |
| Sleep leaves a door on hinge | B2 |
| Whence soul ere our flesh suspect | O |
| Is off and away detect | O |
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| Her vagaries when loose who can | C2 |
| Be she pranksome be she prude | O |
| Disguise with the day began | C2 |
| With the night ah what ensued | O |
| From draughts of a drink hell brewed | O |
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| Then She What a queer wild dream | D2 |
| And perhaps the best fun is | T |
| Myself had its fellow I seem | D2 |
| Scarce awake from yet 'Twas this | T |
| Shall I tell you First a kiss | T |
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| For the fault was just your own | E2 |
| 'Tis myself expect apology | Z |
| You warned me to let alone | E2 |
| Since our studies were mere philology | Z |
| That ticklish you said Anthology | Z |
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| So I dreamed that I passed exam | F2 |
| Till a question posed me sore | C |
| 'Who translated this epigram | F2 |
| By an author we best ignore ' | - |
| And I answered 'Hannah More' | C |
Robert Browning
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