Phantom Or Fact? A Dialogue In Verse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDCDEEFFGG HIIJJ AKKLL| Author | A |
| A lovely form there sate beside my bed | B |
| And such a feeding calm its presence shed | B |
| A tender love so pure from earthly leaven | C |
| That I unnethe the fancy might control | D |
| 'Twas my own spirit newly come from heaven | C |
| Wooing its gentle way into my soul | D |
| But ah the change It had not stirred and yet | E |
| Alas that change how fain would I forget | E |
| That shrinking back like one that had mistook | F |
| That weary wandering disavowing Look | F |
| 'Twas all another feature look and frame | G |
| And still methought I knew it was the same | G |
| - | |
| Friend | H |
| This riddling Tale to what does it belong | I |
| Is't History Vision or an idle Song | I |
| Or rather say at once within what space | J |
| Of Time this wild disastrous change took place | J |
| - | |
| Author | A |
| Call it a moment's work and such it seems | K |
| This Tale's a Fragment from the Life of Dreams | K |
| But say that years matured the silent strife | L |
| And 'tis a Record from the Dream of Life | L |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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