Bad Dreams Iii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDDAEAE AFAFGGHHGIGIFGFGJJKK AAAA| This was my dream I saw a Forest | A |
| Old as the earth no track nor trace | B |
| Of unmade man Thou Soul explorest | A |
| Though in a trembling rapture space | B |
| Immeasurable Shrubs turned trees | C |
| Trees that touch heaven support its frieze | C |
| Studded with sun and moon and star | D |
| While oh the enormous growths that bar | D |
| Mine eye from penetrating past | A |
| Their tangled twins where lurks nay lives | E |
| Royally lone some brute type cast | A |
| I' the rough time cancels man forgives | E |
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| On Soul I saw a lucid City | A |
| Of architectural device | F |
| Every way perfect Pause for pity | A |
| Lightning nor leave a cicatrice | F |
| On those bright marbles dome and spire | G |
| Structures palatial streets which mire | G |
| Dares not defile paved all too fine | H |
| For human footstep's smirch not thine | H |
| Proud solitary traverser | G |
| My Soul of silent lengths of way | I |
| With what ecstatic dread aver | G |
| Lest life start sanctioned by thy stay | I |
| All but the last sight was the hideous | F |
| A City yes a Forest true | G |
| But each devouring each Perfidious | F |
| Snake plants had strangled what I knew | G |
| Was a pavilion once each oak | J |
| Held on his horns some spoil he broke | J |
| By surreptitiously beneath | K |
| Upthrusting pavements as with teeth | K |
| Griped huge weed widening crack and split | A |
| In squares and circles stone work erst | A |
| Oh Nature good Oh Art no whit | A |
| Less worthy Both in one accurst | A |
Robert Browning
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