I Dreamed Of Forest Alleys Fair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC DECE FAGH A IDJD KLML A NHOH PQRQ SMTM UHQH L VWVW CXCY TZKZI | A |
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I DREAMED of forest alleys fair | B |
And fields of gray flowered grass | C |
Where by the yellow summer moon | D |
My Jenny seemed to pass | C |
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I dreamed the yellow summer moon | D |
Behind a cedar wood | E |
Lay white on fields of rippling grass | C |
Where I and Jenny stood | E |
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I dreamed but fallen through my dream | F |
In a rainy land I lie | A |
Where wan wet morning crowns the hills | G |
Of grim reality | H |
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II | A |
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I am as one that keeps awake | I |
All night in the month of June | D |
That lies awake in bed to watch | J |
The trees and great white moon | D |
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For memories of love are more | K |
Than the white moon there above | L |
And dearer than quiet moonshine | M |
Are the thoughts of her I love | L |
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III | A |
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Last night I lingered long without | N |
My last of loves to see | H |
Alas the moon white window panes | O |
Stared blindly back on me | H |
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To day I hold her very hand | P |
Her very waist embrace | Q |
Like clouds across a pool I read | R |
Her thoughts upon her face | Q |
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And yet as now through her clear eyes | S |
I seek the inner shrine | M |
I stoop to read her virgin heart | T |
In doubt if it be mine | M |
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O looking long and fondly thus | U |
What vision should I see | H |
No vision but my own white face | Q |
That grins and mimics me | H |
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IV | L |
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Once more upon the same old seat | V |
In the same sunshiny weather | W |
The elm trees' shadows at their feet | V |
And foliage move together | W |
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The shadows shift upon the grass | C |
The dial point creeps on | X |
The clear sun shines the loiterers pass | C |
As then they passed and shone | Y |
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But now deep sleep is on my heart | T |
Deep sleep and perfect rest | Z |
Hope's flutterings now disturb no more | K |
The quiet of my breast | Z |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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