Shut Out Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFGE HIIH JKKJ LMMN OPPO| The door was shut I looked between | A |
| Its iron bars and saw it lie | B |
| My garden mine beneath the sky | B |
| Pied with all flowers bedewed and green | A |
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| From bough to bough the song birds crossed | C |
| From flower to flower the moths and bees | D |
| With all its nests and stately trees | D |
| It had been mine and it was lost | C |
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| A shadowless spirit kept the gate | E |
| Blank and unchanging like the grave | F |
| I peering through said Let me have | G |
| Some buds to cheer my outcast state | E |
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| He answered not Or give me then | H |
| But one small twig from shrub or tree | I |
| And bid my home remember me | I |
| Until I come to it again | H |
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| The spirit was silent but he took | J |
| Mortar and stone to build a wall | K |
| He left no loophole great or small | K |
| Through which my straining eyes might look | J |
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| So now I sit here quite alone | L |
| Blinded with tears nor grieve for that | M |
| For naught is left worth looking at | M |
| Since my delightful land is gone | N |
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| A violet bed is budding near | O |
| Wherein a lark has made her nest | P |
| And good they are but not the best | P |
| And dear they are but not so dear | O |
Christina Rossetti
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