Epilogue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDDEEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLLLEE CCMM NO| Carol every violet has | A |
| Heaven for a looking glass | B |
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| Every little valley lies | C |
| Under many clouded skies | C |
| Every little cottage stands | D |
| Girt about with boundless lands | D |
| Every little glimmering pond | E |
| Claims the mighty shores beyond | E |
| Shores no seamen ever hailed | F |
| Seas no ship has ever sailed | F |
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| All the shores when day is done | G |
| Fade into the setting sun | G |
| So the story tries to teach | H |
| More than can be told in speech | H |
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| Beauty is a fading flower | I |
| Truth is but a wizard's tower | I |
| Where a solemn death bell tolls | J |
| And a forest round it rolls | J |
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| We have come by curious ways | K |
| To the light that holds the days | K |
| We have sought in haunts of fear | L |
| For that all enfolding sphere | L |
| And lo it was not far but near | L |
| We have found O foolish fond | E |
| The shore that has no shore beyond | E |
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| Deep in every heart it lies | C |
| With its untranscended skies | C |
| For what heaven should bend above | M |
| Hearts that own the heaven of love | M |
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| Carol Carol we have come | N |
| Back to heaven back to home | O |
Alfred Noyes
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