To'' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKJK L| The Day was dying his breath | A |
| Wavered away in a hectic gleam | B |
| And I said if Life's a dream and Death | A |
| And Love and all are dreams I'll dream | B |
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| A mist came over the bay | C |
| Like as a dream would over an eye | D |
| The mist was white and the dream was grey | C |
| And both contained a human cry | D |
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| The burthen whereof was Love | E |
| And it filled both mist and dream with pain | F |
| And the hills below and the skies above | E |
| Were touched and uttered it back again | G |
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| The mist broke down the rift | H |
| A kind ray shot from a holy star | I |
| Then my dream did waver and break and lift | H |
| Through it O Love shone thy face afar | I |
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| So Boyhood sets comes Youth | J |
| A painful night of mists and dreams | K |
| That broods till Love's exquisite truth | J |
| The star of a morn clear manhood beams | K |
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| Boykin's Bluff Virginia | L |
Sidney Lanier
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