A Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FFGG BBHH GGII JJKK FFEE LLIII| I heard the dogs howl in the moonlight night | A |
| I went to the window to see the sight | A |
| All the Dead that ever I knew | B |
| Going one by one and two by two | B |
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| On they pass'd and on they pass'd | C |
| Townsfellows all from first to last | C |
| Born in the moonlight of the lane | D |
| Quench'd in the heavy shadow again | E |
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| Schoolmates marching as when they play'd | F |
| At soldiers once but now more staid | F |
| Those were the strangest sight to me | G |
| Who were drown'd I knew in the awful sea | G |
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| Straight and handsome folk bent and weak too | B |
| Some that I loved and gasp'd to speak to | B |
| Some but a day in their churchyard bed | H |
| Some that I had not known were dead | H |
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| A long long crowd where each seem'd lonely | G |
| Yet of them all there was one one only | G |
| Raised a head or look'd my way | I |
| She linger'd a moment she might not stay | I |
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| How long since I saw that fair pale face | J |
| Ah Mother dear might I only place | J |
| My head on thy breast a moment to rest | K |
| While thy hand on my tearful cheek were prest | K |
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| On on a moving bridge they made | F |
| Across the moon stream from shade to shade | F |
| Young and old women and men | E |
| Many long forgot but remembered then | E |
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| And first there came a bitter laughter | L |
| A sound of tears a moment after | L |
| And then a music so lofty and gay | I |
| That eve morning day by day | I |
| I strive to recall it if I may | I |
William Allingham
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