The Pimpernel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG DHDH IJIJ KLKL MNMN EDED OPOQ DRDRSTST MUMU VDVD WDWD XYZY MDMD| SHE walks beside the silent shore | A |
| The tide is high the breeze is still | B |
| No ripple breaks the ocean floor | A |
| The sunshine sleeps upon the hill | B |
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| The turf is warm beneath her feet | C |
| Bordering the beach of stone and shell | D |
| And thick about her path the sweet | C |
| Red blossoms of the pimpernel | D |
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| O sleep not yet my flower she cries | E |
| Nor prophesy of storm to come | F |
| Tell me that under steadfast skies | E |
| Fair winds shall bring my lover home | G |
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| She stoops to gather flower and shell | D |
| She sits and smiling studies each | H |
| She hears the full tide rise and swell | D |
| And whisper softly on the beach | H |
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| Waking she dreams a golden dream | I |
| Remembering with what still delight | J |
| To watch the sunset s fading gleam | I |
| Here by the waves they stood last night | J |
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| She leans on that encircling arm | K |
| Divinely strong with power to draw | L |
| Her nature as the moon doth charm | K |
| The swaying sea with heavenly law | L |
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| All lost in bliss the moments glide | M |
| She feels his whisper his caress | N |
| The murmur of the mustering tide | M |
| Brings her no presage of distress | N |
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| What breaks her dream She lifts her eyes | E |
| Reluctant to destroy the spell | D |
| The color from her bright cheek dies | E |
| Close folded is the pimpernel | D |
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| With rapid glance she scans the sky | O |
| Rises a sudden wind and grows | P |
| And charged with storm the cloud heaps lie | O |
| Well may the scarlet blossoms close | Q |
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| A touch and bliss is turned to bale | D |
| Life only keeps the sense of pain | R |
| The world holds naught save one white sail | D |
| Flying before the wind and rain | R |
| Broken upon the wheel of fear | S |
| She wears the storm vexed hour away | T |
| And now in gold and fire draws near | S |
| The sunset of her troubled day | T |
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| But to her sky is yet denied | M |
| The sun that lights the world for her | U |
| She sweeps the rose flushed ocean wide | M |
| With eager eyes that quick tears blur | U |
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| And lonely lonely all the space | V |
| Stretches with never sign of sail | D |
| And sadder grows her wistful face | V |
| And all the sunset splendors fail | D |
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| And cold and pale in still despair | W |
| With heavier grief than tongue can tell | D |
| She sinks upon her lips a prayer | W |
| Her cheek against the pimpernel | D |
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| Wee blossoms wet with showery tears | X |
| On her shut eyes their droplets shed | Y |
| Only the wakened waves she hears | Z |
| That singing drown his rapid tread | Y |
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| 'Sweet I am here ' Joy s gates swing wide | M |
| And heaven is theirs and all is well | D |
| And left beside the ebbing tide | M |
| Forgotten is the pimpernel | D |
Celia Thaxter
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