A Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH EEEE IJIJ KLKL MNMN EEEE OPOP EQEQ ERER JAJA| I had a dream a strange wild dream | A |
| Said a dear voice at early light | B |
| And even yet its shadows seem | A |
| To linger in my waking sight | B |
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| Earth green with spring and fresh with dew | C |
| And bright with morn before me stood | D |
| And airs just wakened softly blew | C |
| On the young blossoms of the wood | D |
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| Birds sang within the sprouting shade | E |
| Bees hummed amid the whispering grass | F |
| And children prattled as they played | E |
| Beside the rivulet's dimpling glass | F |
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| Fast climbed the sun the flowers were flown | G |
| There played no children in the glen | H |
| For some were gone and some were grown | G |
| To blooming dames and bearded men | H |
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| 'Twas noon 'twas summer I beheld | E |
| Woods darkening in the flush of day | E |
| And that bright rivulet spread and swelled | E |
| A mighty stream with creek and bay | E |
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| And here was love and there was strife | I |
| And mirthful shouts and wrathful cries | J |
| And strong men struggling as for life | I |
| With knotted limbs and angry eyes | J |
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| Now stooped the sun the shades grew thin | K |
| The rustling paths were piled with leaves | L |
| And sunburnt groups were gathering in | K |
| From the shorn field its fruits and sheaves | L |
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| The river heaved with sullen sounds | M |
| The chilly wind was sad with moans | N |
| Black hearses passed and burial grounds | M |
| Grew thick with monumental stones | N |
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| Still waned the day the wind that chased | E |
| The jagged clouds blew chillier yet | E |
| The woods were stripped the fields were waste | E |
| The wintry sun was near its set | E |
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| And of the young and strong and fair | O |
| A lonely remnant gray and weak | P |
| Lingered and shivered to the air | O |
| Of that bleak shore and water bleak | P |
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| Ah age is drear and death is cold | E |
| I turned to thee for thou wert near | Q |
| And saw thee withered bowed and old | E |
| And woke all faint with sudden fear | Q |
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| 'Twas thus I heard the dreamer say | E |
| And bade her clear her clouded brow | R |
| For thou and I since childhood's day | E |
| Have walked in such a dream till now | R |
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| Watch we in calmness as they rise | J |
| The changes of that rapid dream | A |
| And note its lessons till our eyes | J |
| Shall open in the morning beam | A |
William Cullen Bryant
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