The Spanish Needle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH DCJC KLMN ABOB| Lovely dainty Spanish needle | A |
| With your yellow flower and white | B |
| Dew bedecked and softly sleeping | C |
| Do you think of me to night | B |
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| Shadowed by the spreading mango | D |
| Nodding o'er the rippling stream | E |
| Tell me dear plant of my childhood | F |
| Do you of the exile dream | E |
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| Do you see me by the brook's side | G |
| Catching crayfish 'neath the stone | H |
| As you did the day you whispered | I |
| Leave the harmless dears alone | H |
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| Do you see me in the meadow | D |
| Coming from the woodland spring | C |
| With a bamboo on my shoulder | J |
| And a pail slung from a string | C |
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| Do you see me all expectant | K |
| Lying in an orange grove | L |
| While the swee swees sing above me | M |
| Waiting for my elf eyed love | N |
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| Lovely dainty Spanish needle | A |
| Source to me of sweet delight | B |
| In your far off sunny southland | O |
| Do you dream of me to night | B |
Claude Mckay
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