The Unfinished Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GGHG IJCJ KLML NOPO QRCR STUT TRKR AAAV W| Rare sweet the air in that unimagined country | A |
| My spirit had wandered far | B |
| From its weary body close enwrapt in slumber | C |
| Where its home and earth friends are | B |
| A milk like air and of light all abundance | D |
| And there a river clear | E |
| Painting the scene like a picture on its bosom | F |
| Green foliage drifting near | E |
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| No sign of life I saw as I pressed onward | G |
| Fish nor beast nor bird | G |
| Till I came to a hill clothed in flowers to its summit | H |
| Then shrill small voices I heard | G |
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| And I saw from concealment a company of elf folk | I |
| With faces strangely fair | J |
| Talking their unearthly scattered talk together | C |
| A bind of green grasses in their hair | J |
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| Marvellously gentle feater far than children | K |
| In gesture mien and speech | L |
| Hastening onward in translucent shafts of sunshine | M |
| And gossiping each with each | L |
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| Straw light their locks on neck and shoulder falling | N |
| Faint of almond the silks they wore | O |
| Spun not of worm but as if inwoven of moonbeams | P |
| And foam on rock bound shore | O |
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| Like lank legged grasshoppers in June tide meadows | Q |
| Amalillios of the day | R |
| Hungrily gazed upon by me a stranger | C |
| In unknown regions astray | R |
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| Yet happy beyond words I marked their sunlit faces | S |
| Stealing soft enchantment from their eyes | T |
| Tears in my own confusing their small image | U |
| Harkening their bird like cries | T |
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| They passed me unseeing a waft of flocking linnets | T |
| Sadly I fared on my way | R |
| And came in my dream to a dreamlike habitation | K |
| Close shut festooned and grey | R |
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| Pausing I gazed at the porch dust still vine wreath d | A |
| Worn the stone steps thereto | A |
| Mute hung its bell whence a stony head looked downward | A |
| Grey 'gainst the sky's pale blue | V |
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| Strange to me strange | W |
Walter De La Mare
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