A Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBBCCBBDDBBEFBBC CCCGGAHBBAAAICCCCCCC JJKKKAALLBBBBBBCC BBBMM CCNNBBNOAAJJJJJJust when ye dead of night began to fail | A |
boding visions senceless dreams expell | A |
Methought a matron stood beside my bed | B |
Upon her face a wondrous sweetness playd | B |
pointed Glorys dressd the modest visions head | B |
my tongue grew speechless my eyes were fixt | B |
by silent fear with admiration mixt | B |
She to my lips a living coal apply's | C |
perhaps from some well pleasing sacrifice | C |
then thus she said while I more courage found | B |
to bear her sight hear ye heav'nly sound | B |
from the bright realms my vot'ries have I came | D |
saints are my vot'ries Piety my name | D |
Oft do I come but often am dispisd | B |
happy were all if all my favour prizd | B |
now my best offers to yr soul I give | E |
Accept these offers O be mine live | F |
Ile teach you how to pray for wt you want | B |
when I teach you God yr prayr will grant | B |
Ile teach you your redeemer to rehearse | C |
glide in flames of love along yr verse | C |
Lett other men describe wth flowing lines | C |
How Damon courts or Amarillis shines | C |
But for your subject chuse a theme divine | G |
fames their reward while heaven it self is thine | G |
then since Angells sing of nought below | A |
they'le sing like men but like an angell you | H |
Be thou my bard as these words she said | B |
She powrd a sacred unction on my head | B |
then thus proceeded Be thy muse thy Zeal | A |
dare to be good all my Joys reveal | A |
if Drunkards to their Deity apply | A |
A short contentment a fleeting Joy | I |
Apply to me true peace lasting bliss | C |
I should not dress in weaker charms yn his | C |
New paint ye love yt hov'ring over beds | C |
from purple wings his guilty pleasures sheds | C |
his bow be sable sable be the darts | C |
but tingd with endless flame to scorch our hearts | C |
his bones without the sanguin stream or vital parts | C |
But above all employ thy utmost powr | J |
on love Divine twill need it all more | J |
Oh boundless Goodness to poor mankind shown | K |
tell but the fact lett rhetorick alone | K |
no colours can become it like its own | K |
Draw a Descending Jesus from ye sky | A |
Make the great being in a manger ly | A |
Of men despisd of men he came to save | L |
pursu'd afflicted to ye very grave | L |
Make ye great being cheerfully submitt | B |
me like Mary weeping at his feet | B |
Much have I said more woud tell you yet | B |
but raptures smother what I woud repeat | B |
My thoughts grow giddy while I strive to sound | B |
the height depth of love wthout a bound | B |
My God I cannot comprehend thy wayes | C |
but what I cannot comprehend Ile prayse | C |
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then With raptures in her mouth she fled | B |
the Cloud for on a cloud she seemd to tread | B |
its curles unfolded around her spread | B |
My downy rest the warmth of fancy broke | M |
when my thoughts grew settled thus I spoke | M |
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Ah Gracious Lord make all my dreams like this | C |
make mine innocence compose my bliss | C |
When reason lyes Asleep leaves to reign | N |
May my good Angell my passions restrain | N |
Or I must wake to find upon my breast | B |
the gaudy forms more deep yn ere imprest | B |
they'le make my reason's victorys in vain | N |
make my former habits mine again | O |
Thus if the snake wch hardly moves the tail | A |
to shun the conqu'ring season takes a cell | A |
if nature in a sleep a skin prepare | J |
give him more strength make him look more fair | J |
He finds his robe is changd fm what he wore | J |
He proudly shoots along ye sunny shore | J |
hunts the man fm whom he fled before | J |
Thomas Parnell
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