A Dream. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACD EFFEGG HIJKLL MNNMOO PJJQRS CMMCTT UVVUWW XYYUSS QZA2B2JJ C2JJC2D2D2 ME2E2MJF2 G2OOG2H2H2 I2J2J2I2K2K2 JL2L2JM2M2 N2O2O2N2K2K2I stood far off above the haunts of men | A |
Somewhere I know not when the sky was dim | B |
From some worn glory and the morning hymn | B |
Of the gay oriole echoed from the glen | A |
Wandering I felt earth's peace nor knew I sought | C |
A visioned face a voice the wind had caught | D |
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I passed the waking things that stirred and gazed | E |
Thought bound and heeded not the waking flowers | F |
Drank in the morning mist dawn's tender showers | F |
And looked forth for the Day god who had blazed | E |
His heart away and died at sundown Far | G |
In the gray west faded a loitering star | G |
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It seemed that I had wandered through long years | H |
A life of years still seeking gropingly | I |
A thing I dared not name now I could see | J |
In the still dawn a hope in the soft tears | K |
Of the deep hearted violets a breath | L |
Of kinship like the herald voice of Death | L |
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Slow moved the morning where the hill was bare | M |
Woke a reluctant breeze Dimly I knew | N |
My Day was come The wind blown blossoms threw | N |
Their breath about me and the pine swept air | M |
Grew to a shape a mighty formless thing | O |
A phantom of the wood's imagining | O |
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And as I gazed spell bound it seemed to move | P |
Its tendril limbs still swaying tremulously | J |
As if in spirit doubt then glad and free | J |
Crystalled the being won from waiting grove | Q |
Into a human likeness There he stood | R |
The vine browed shape of Nature's mortal mood | S |
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Now have I found thee Vision I have sought | C |
These years unknowing surely thou art fair | M |
And inly wise and on thy tasselled hair | M |
Glows Heaven's own light Passion and fame are naught | C |
To thy clear eyes O Prince of many lands | T |
Grant me thy joy I cried and stretched my hands | T |
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No answer but the flourish of the breeze | U |
Through the black pines Then slowly as the wind | V |
Parts the dense cloud forms leaving naught behind | V |
But shapeless vapor through the budding trees | U |
Drifted some force unseen and from my sight | W |
Faded my god into the morning light | W |
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Again alone With wistful straining eyes | X |
I waited and the sunshine flecked the bank | Y |
Happy with arbutus and violets where I sank | Y |
Hearing near by a host of melodies | U |
The rapture of the woodthrush soft her mood | S |
The love mate with such golden numbers woo'd | S |
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He ceased the fresh moss odors filled the grove | Q |
With a strange sweetness the dark hemlock boughs | Z |
Moved soft as though they heard the brooklet rouse | A2 |
To its spring soul and whisper low of love | B2 |
The white robed birches stood unbendingly | J |
Like royal maids in proud expectancy | J |
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Athwart the ramage where the young leaves press | C2 |
It came to me ah call it what you will | J |
Vision or waking dream I see it still | J |
Again a form born of the woodland stress | C2 |
Grew to my gaze and by some secret sign | D2 |
Though shadow hid I knew the form was thine | D2 |
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The glancing sunlight made thy ruddy hair | M |
A crown of gold but on thy spirit face | E2 |
There was no smile only a tender grace | E2 |
Of love half doubt Upon thy hand a rare | M |
Wild bird of Paradise perched fearlessly | J |
With radiant plumage and still lustrous eye | F2 |
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And as I gazed I saw what I had deemed | G2 |
A shadow near thy hand a dusky wing | O |
A bird like last year's leaves so dull a thing | O |
Beside its fellow as the sunshine gleamed | G2 |
Each breast showed letters bright as crystalled rain | H2 |
The fair bird bore Delight the other Pain | H2 |
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Then came thy voice O Love wilt have my gift | I2 |
I stretched my glad hands eagerly to grasp | J2 |
The heaven blown bird gold hued and longed to clasp | J2 |
It close and know it mine Ere I might lift | I2 |
The shining thing and hold it to my breast | K2 |
Again I heard thy voice with vague unrest | K2 |
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These are twin birds and may not parted be | J |
Full in thine eyes I gazed and read therein | L2 |
The paradox of life of love of sin | L2 |
As on a night of cloud and mystery | J |
One darting flash makes bright the hidden ways | M2 |
And feet tread knowingly though thick the haze | M2 |
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Thy gift if so I chose no other hand | N2 |
Save thine I reached and gathered to my heart | O2 |
The quivering sentient things Sometimes I start | O2 |
To know them hidden there If I should stand | N2 |
Idly some day and one God help me breast | K2 |
A homing breeze my brown bird knows its nest | K2 |
Sophie M. (almon) Hensley
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