A Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBBCCBBDDBBEFBBC CCCGGAHBBAAAICCCCCCC JJKKKAALLBBBBBBCC BBBMM CCNNBBNOAAJJJJJ| Just 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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