The Treasure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AEAF AGAG HIJI KLKL| Three times have I beheld | A |
| Fear leap in a babe's face and take his breath | B |
| Fear like the fear of eld | A |
| That knows the price of life the name of death | B |
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| What is it justifies | C |
| This thing this dread this fright that has no tongue | D |
| The terror in those eyes | C |
| When only eyes can speak they are so young | D |
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| Not yet those eyes had wept | A |
| What does fear cherish that it locks so well | E |
| What fortress is thus kept | A |
| Of what is ignorant terror sentinel | F |
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| And pain in the poor child | A |
| Monstrously disproportionate and dumb | G |
| In the poor beast and wild | A |
| In the old decorous man caught overcome | G |
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| Of what the outposts these | H |
| Of what the fighting guardians What demands | I |
| That sense of menaces | J |
| And then such flying feet imploring hands | I |
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| Life There's nought else to seek | K |
| Life only little prized but by design | L |
| Of Nature prized How weak | K |
| How sad how brief O how divine divine | L |
Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell
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