The Thames At Mortlake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC DEF G HH IJK LMM M NNO P HMQ RG| if only for ten minutes | A |
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| after the mass feeding of schoolchildren | B |
| after the careful inanity of the staff | C |
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| at low tide | D |
| this was the place | E |
| for calm for order of a kind | F |
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| the relief of walking there | G |
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| and the smell was acceptable | H |
| perhaps even preferable | H |
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| the objects to be | I |
| seen | J |
| found | K |
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| principally I have it still | L |
| a short fat halfpound brass bolt and nut | M |
| virgin unscrewed | M |
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| other things less permanent | M |
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| sodden grey bones | N |
| scratched glass rubbed brick rusted gatebutts | N |
| once a chaffinch eggshell | O |
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| every conceivable other | P |
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| but mainly dirty shingle | H |
| silt | M |
| prairies of malachite slime | Q |
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| though was the important thing | R |
| that I met no one else there | G |
Ben Jonson
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