The Day-dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFEG HIHJ KLKL MNMO PQPQ CRCR LSLS TUVU LLLL CGWF CTCT| A | |
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| They both were husht the voice the chords | B |
| I heard but once that witching lay | C |
| And few the notes and few the words | D |
| My spell bound memory brought away | C |
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| Traces remembered here and there | E |
| Like echoes of some broken strain | F |
| Links of a sweetness lost in air | E |
| That nothing now could join again | G |
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| Even these too ere the morning fled | H |
| And tho' the charm still lingered on | I |
| That o'er each sense her song had shed | H |
| The song itself was faded gone | J |
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| Gone like the thoughts that once were ours | K |
| On summer days ere youth had set | L |
| Thoughts bright we know as summer flowers | K |
| Tho' what they were we now forget | L |
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| In vain with hints from other strains | M |
| I wooed this truant air to come | N |
| As birds are taught on eastern plains | M |
| To lure their wilder kindred home | O |
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| In vain the song that Sappho gave | P |
| In dying to the mournful sea | Q |
| Not muter slept beneath the wave | P |
| Than this within my memory | Q |
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| At length one morning as I lay | C |
| In that half waking mood when dreams | R |
| Unwillingly at last gave way | C |
| To the full truth of daylight's beams | R |
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| A face the very face methought | L |
| From which had breathed as from a shrine | S |
| Of song and soul the notes I sought | L |
| Came with its music close to mine | S |
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| And sung the long lost measure o'er | T |
| Each note and word with every tone | U |
| And look that lent it life before | V |
| All perfect all again my own | U |
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| Like parted souls when mid the Blest | L |
| They meet again each widowed sound | L |
| Thro' memory's realm had winged in quest | L |
| Of its sweet mate till all were found | L |
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| Nor even in waking did the clew | C |
| Thus strangely caught escape again | G |
| For never lark its matins knew | W |
| So well as now I knew this strain | F |
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| And oft when memory's wondrous spell | C |
| Is talked of in our tranquil bower | T |
| I sing this lady's song and tell | C |
| The vision of that morning hour | T |
Thomas Moore
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