June Dreams, In January Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH AIAJ KLLL MAMA LLLL LNLN OLPQRLSTPUVWXQYZA2QB 2C2D2E2F2G2F2OM H2LC2LGARI2VJ2K2B2L2 M2LN2O2P2J2Q2R2F2ALR J2J2S2N2J2J2J2N2LLB2 T2U2S2QJ2J2 V2So pulse and pulse thou rhythmic hearted Noon | A |
That liest large limbed curved along the hills | B |
In languid palpitation half a swoon | A |
With ardors and sun loves and subtle thrills | B |
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Throb Beautiful while the fervent hours exhale | C |
As kisses faint blown from thy finger tips | D |
Up to the sun that turn him passion pale | C |
And then as red as any virgin's lips | D |
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O tender Darkness when June day hath ceased | E |
Faint Odor from the day flower's crushing born | F |
Dim visible Sigh out of the mournful East | E |
That cannot see her lord again till morn | F |
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And many leaves broad palmed towards the sky | G |
To catch the sacred raining of star light | H |
And pallid petals fain all fain to die | G |
Soul stung by too keen passion of the night | H |
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And short breath'd winds under yon gracious moon | A |
Doing mild errands for mild violets | I |
Or carrying sighs from the red lips of June | A |
What aimless way the odor current sets | J |
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And stars ringed glittering in whorls and bells | K |
Or bent along the sky in looped star sprays | L |
Or vine wound with bright grapes in panicles | L |
Or bramble tangled in a sweetest maze | L |
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Or lying like young lilies in a lake | M |
About the great white Lotus of the moon | A |
Or blown and drifted as if winds should shake | M |
Star blossoms down from silver stems too soon | A |
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Or budding thick about full open stars | L |
Or clambering shyly up cloud lattices | L |
Or trampled pale in the red path of Mars | L |
Or trim set in quaint gardener's fantasies | L |
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And long June night sounds crooned among the leaves | L |
And whispered confidence of dark and green | N |
And murmurs in old moss about old eaves | L |
And tinklings floating over water sheen | N |
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Then he that wrote laid down his pen and sighed | O |
And straightway came old Scorn and Bitterness | L |
Like Hunnish kings out of the barbarous land | P |
And camped upon the transient Italy | Q |
That he had dreamed to blossom in his soul | R |
I'll date this dream he said so 'Given these | L |
On this the coldest night in all the year | S |
From this the meanest garret in the world | T |
In this the greatest city in the land | P |
To you the richest folk this side of death | U |
By one the hungriest poet under heaven | V |
Writ while his candle sputtered in the gust | W |
And while his last last ember died of cold | X |
And while the mortal ice i' the air made free | Q |
Of all his bones and bit and shrunk his heart | Y |
And while soft Luxury made show to strike | Z |
Her gloved hands together and to smile | A2 |
What time her weary feet unconsciously | Q |
Trode wheels that lifted Avarice to power | B2 |
And while moreover O thou God thou God | C2 |
His worshipful sweet wife sat still afar | D2 |
Within the village whence she sent him forth | E2 |
Into the town to make his name and fame | F2 |
Waiting all confident and proud and calm | G2 |
Till he should make for her his name and fame | F2 |
Waiting O Christ how keen this cuts large eyed | O |
With Baby Charley till her husband make | M |
For her and him a poet's name and fame ' | - |
Read me he cried and rose and stamped his foot | H2 |
Impatiently at Heaven read me this | L |
Putting th' inquiry full in the face of God | C2 |
Why can we poets dream us beauty so | L |
But cannot dream us bread Why now can I | G |
Make aye create this fervid throbbing June | A |
Out of the chill chill matter of my soul | R |
Yet cannot make a poorest penny loaf | I2 |
Out of this same chill matter no not one | V |
For Mary though she starved upon my breast | J2 |
And then he fell upon his couch and sobbed | K2 |
And late just when his heart leaned o'er | B2 |
The very edge of breaking fain to fall | L2 |
God sent him sleep | M2 |
There came his room fellow | L |
Stout Dick the painter saw the written dream | N2 |
Read scratched his curly pate smiled winked fell on | O2 |
The poem in big hearted comic rage | P2 |
Quick folded thrust in envelope addressed | J2 |
To him the critic god that sitteth grim | Q2 |
And giant grisly on the stone causeway | R2 |
That leadeth to his magazine and fame | F2 |
Him by due mail the little Dream of June | A |
Encountered growling and at unawares | L |
Stole in upon his poem battered soul | R |
So that he smiled then shook his head upon 't | J2 |
Then growled then smiled again till at the last | J2 |
As one that deadly sinned against his will | S2 |
He writ upon the margin of the Dream | N2 |
A wondrous wondrous word that in a day | J2 |
Did turn the fleeting song to very bread | J2 |
Whereat Dick Painter leapt the poet wept | J2 |
And Mary slept with happy drops a gleam | N2 |
Upon long lashes of her serene eyes | L |
From twentieth reading of her poet's news | L |
Quick sent O sweet my Sweet to dream is power | B2 |
And I can dream thee bread and dream thee wine | T2 |
And I will dream thee robes and gems dear Love | U2 |
To clothe thy holy loveliness withal | S2 |
And I will dream thee here to live by me | Q |
Thee and my little man thou hold'st at breast | J2 |
Come Name come Fame and kiss my Sweetheart's feet | J2 |
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Georgia | V2 |
Sidney Lanier
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