To Beatrice Stuart--wortley à?tat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IJKK LLMN OOPP QQRR AABB| Patter patter little feet | A |
| Making music quaint and sweet | A |
| Up the passage down the stair | B |
| Patter patter everywhere | B |
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| Ripple ripple little voice | C |
| When I hear you I rejoice | C |
| When you cease to crow and coo | D |
| Then my heart grows silent too | D |
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| Frolic frolic little form | E |
| While the day is young and warm | E |
| When the shadows shun the west | F |
| Climb up to my knee and rest | F |
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| Slumber slumber little head | G |
| Gambols o'er and night prayers said | G |
| I will give you in your cot | H |
| Kisses that awake you not | H |
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| Open open little lids | I |
| Lambs are frisking in the meads | J |
| Blackcaps flit from stem to stem | K |
| Come and chirp along with them | K |
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| Change not change not little fay | L |
| Still be as you are to day | L |
| What a loss is growth of sense | M |
| With decrease of innocence | N |
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| Something in your little ways | O |
| Wins me more than love or praise | O |
| You have gone and I feel still | P |
| Void I somehow cannot fill | P |
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| Yes you leave when you depart | Q |
| Empty cradle in my heart | Q |
| Where I sit and rock my pain | R |
| Singing lullaby in vain | R |
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| Come back come back little feet | A |
| Bring again the music sweet | A |
| To the garden to the stair | B |
| Patter chatter everywhere | B |
Alfred Austin
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