The Death-dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFGFHIJIJ| Who now put dreams into thy slumbering mind | A |
| Who with bright Fear's lean taper crossed a hand | B |
| Athwart its beam and stooping truth maligned | A |
| Spake so thy spirit speech should understand | B |
| And with a dread He's dead awaked a peal | C |
| Of frenzied bells along the vacant ways | D |
| Of thy poor earthly heart waked thee to steal | C |
| Like dawn distraught upon unhappy days | D |
| To prove nought nothing Was it Time's large voice | E |
| Out of the inscrutable future whispered so | F |
| Or but the horror of a little noise | G |
| Earth wakes at dead of night Or does Love know | F |
| When his sweet wings weary and droop and even | H |
| In sleep cries audibly a shrill remorse | I |
| Or haply was it I who out of dream | J |
| Stole but a little where shadows course | I |
| Called back to thee across the eternal stream | J |
Walter De La Mare
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