Dream Tragedies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGBBHHIIJG KLMMEE| Thou art not always kind O sleep | A |
| What awful secrets them dost keep | A |
| In store and ofttimes make us know | B |
| What hero has not fallen low | B |
| In sleep before a monster grim | C |
| And whined for mercy unto him | C |
| Knights constables and men at arms | D |
| Have quailed and whined in sleep's alarms | D |
| Thou wert not kind last night to make | E |
| Me like a very coward shake | E |
| Shake like a thin red currant bush | F |
| Robbed of its fruit by a strong thrush | G |
| I felt this earth did move more slow | B |
| And slower yet began to go | B |
| And not a bird was heard to sing | H |
| Men and great beasts were shivering | H |
| All living things knew well that when | I |
| This earth stood still destruction then | I |
| Would follow with a mighty crash | J |
| 'Twas then I broke that awful hush | G |
| E'en as a mother who does come | K |
| Running in haste back to her home | L |
| And looks at once and lo the child | M |
| She left asleep is gone and wild | M |
| She shrieks and loud so did I break | E |
| With a mad cry that dream and wake | E |
William Henry Davies
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