Dreams Are Best Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIHI JKJKLMLN OPOPDQDQ RSRSEACAI just think that dreams are best | A |
Just to sit and fancy things | B |
Give your gold no acid test | A |
Try not how your silver rings | B |
Fancy women pure and good | C |
Fancy men upright and true | D |
Fortressed in your solitude | E |
Let Life be a dream to you | D |
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For I think that Thought is all | F |
Truth's a minion of the mind | G |
Love's ideal comes at call | F |
As ye seek so shall ye find | G |
But ye must not seek too far | H |
Things are never what they seem | I |
Let a star be just a star | H |
And a woman just a dream | I |
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O you Dreamers proud and pure | J |
You have gleaned the sweet of life | K |
Golden truths that shall endure | J |
Over pain and doubt and strife | K |
I would rather be a fool | L |
Living in my Paradise | M |
Than the leader of a school | L |
Sadly sane and weary wise | N |
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O you Cynics with your sneers | O |
Fallen brains and hearts of brass | P |
Tweak me by my foolish ears | O |
Write me down a simple ass | P |
I'll believe the real you | D |
Is the you without a taint | Q |
I'll believe each woman too | D |
But a slightly damaged saint | Q |
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Yes I'll smoke my cigarette | R |
Vestured in my garb of dreams | S |
And I'll borrow no regret | R |
All is gold that golden gleams | S |
So I'll charm my solitude | E |
With the faith that Life is blest | A |
Brave and noble bright and good | C |
Oh I think that dreams are best | A |
Robert Service
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