The Painted Ceiling Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH CJKJ LHMH NOPO QRSR TUOU| My Grandpapa lives in a wonderful house | A |
| With a great many windows and doors | B |
| There are stairs that go up and stairs that go down | C |
| And such beautiful slippery floors | B |
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| But of all of the rooms even mother's and mine | D |
| And the bookroom and parlour and all | E |
| I like the green dining room so much the best | F |
| Because of its ceiling and wall | E |
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| Right over your head is a funny round hole | G |
| With apples and pears falling through | H |
| There's a big bunch of grapes all purply and sweet | I |
| And melons and pineapples too | H |
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| They tumble and tumble but never come down | C |
| Though I've stood underneath a long while | J |
| With my mouth open wide for I always have hoped | K |
| Just a cherry would drop from the pile | J |
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| No matter how early I run there to look | L |
| It has always begun to fall through | H |
| And one night when at bedtime I crept in to see | M |
| It was falling by candle light too | H |
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| I am sure they are magical fruits and each one | N |
| Makes you hear things or see things or go | O |
| Forever invisible but it's no use | P |
| And of course I shall just never know | O |
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| For the ladder's too heavy to lift and the chairs | Q |
| Are not nearly so tall as I need | R |
| I've given up hope and I feel I shall die | S |
| Without having accomplished the deed | R |
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| It's a little bit sad when you seem very near | T |
| To adventures and things of that sort | U |
| Which nearly begin and then don't and you know | O |
| It is only because you are short | U |
Amy Lowell
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