Aubade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CC DD EE DD AA FF GG DD HH DD AABJANE Jane | A |
Tall as a crane | A |
The morning light creaks down again | B |
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Comb your cockscomb ragged hair | C |
Jane Jane come down the stair | C |
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Each dull blunt wooden stalactite | D |
Of rain creaks hardened by the light | D |
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Sounding like an overtone | E |
From some lonely world unknown | E |
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But the creaking empty light | D |
Will never harden into sight | D |
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Will never penetrate your brain | A |
With overtones like the blunt rain | A |
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The light would show if it could harden | F |
Eternities of kitchen garden | F |
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Cockscomb flowers that none will pluck | G |
And wooden flowers that 'gin to cluck | G |
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In the kitchen you must light | D |
Flames as staring red and white | D |
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As carrots or as turnips shining | H |
Where the cold dawn light lies whining | H |
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Cockscomb hair on the cold wind | D |
Hangs limp turns the milk's weak mind | D |
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Jane Jane | A |
Tall as a crane | A |
The morning light creaks down again | B |
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
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