The Dream Of Youth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGCCHHII AAJJKKLLFFKKMMNNOOPP QQRRSSTTUVWWXXQQQQYZ A2A2TT| In days of yore while yet the world was new | A |
| And all around was beautiful to view | A |
| When spring or summer ruled the happy hours | B |
| And golden fruit hung down mid opening flowers | B |
| When if you chanced among the woods to stray | C |
| The rosy footed dryad led the way | C |
| Or if beside a mountain brook your path | D |
| You ever caught some na iuml ad at her bath | D |
| 'Twas in that golden day that Damon strayed | E |
| Musing alone along a Grecian glade | E |
| Retired the scene yet in the morning light | F |
| Athens in view shone glimmering to the sight | F |
| 'Twas far away yet painted on the skies | G |
| It seemed a marble cloud of glorious dyes | G |
| Where yet the rosy morn with lingering ray | C |
| Loved on the sapphire pediments to play | C |
| But why did Damon heed the distant scene | H |
| For he was young and all around was green | H |
| A noisy brook was romping through the dell | I |
| And on his ear the laughing echoes fell | I |
| Along his path the stooping wild flowers grew | A |
| And woo'd the very zephyrs as they flew | A |
| Then why young Damon heeding nought around | J |
| Seemed in some thrall of distant vision bound | J |
| I cannot tell but dreamy grew his gaze | K |
| And all his thought was in a misty maze | K |
| Awhile he sauntered then beneath a tree | L |
| He sat him down and there a reverie | L |
| Came o'er his spirit like a spell and bright | F |
| A truth like vision shone upon his sight | F |
| Around on every side with glowing pinions | K |
| A circling band as if from Jove's dominions | K |
| All wooing came and sought with wily art | M |
| To steal away the youthful dreamer's heart | M |
| One offered wealth another spoke of fame | N |
| And held a wreath to twine around his name | N |
| One brought the pallet and the magic brush | O |
| By which creative art bids nature blush | O |
| To see her rival and the artful boy | P |
| His story told the all entrancing joy | P |
| His skill could give but well the rogue concealed | Q |
| The piercing thorns that flourish unrevealed | Q |
| Along the artist's path the poverty the strife | R |
| Of study and the weary waste of life | R |
| All these the drawback of his wily tale | S |
| The little artist covered with a veil | S |
| Young Damon listened and his heart beat high | T |
| But now a cunning archer gained his eye | T |
| And stealing close he whispered in his ear | U |
| A glowing tale so musical and dear | V |
| That Damon vowed like many a panting youth | W |
| To Love eternal constancy and truth | W |
| But while the whisper from his bosom broke | X |
| A fearful Image to his spirit spoke | X |
| With frowning brow and giant arm he stood | Q |
| Holding a glass as if in threatening mood | Q |
| He waited but a moment for the sand | Q |
| To sweep the idle Dreamer from the land | Q |
| Young Damon started and his dream was o'er | Y |
| But to his soul the seeming vision bore | Z |
| A solemn meaning which he could not spurn | A2 |
| And Youth perchance may from our fable learn | A2 |
| That while the beckoning passions woo and sigh | T |
| TIME with his ready scythe stands listening by | T |
Sam G. Goodrich
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