A Visit To The Asylum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH CJKJ CLCL MKNK| Once from a big big building | A |
| When I was small small | B |
| The queer folk in the windows | C |
| Would smile at me and call | B |
| - | |
| And in the hard wee gardens | D |
| Such pleasant men would hoe | E |
| Sir may we touch the little girl's hair mdash | F |
| It was so red you know | E |
| - | |
| They cut me coloured asters | G |
| With shears so sharp and neat | H |
| They brought me grapes and plums and pears | I |
| And pretty cakes to eat | H |
| - | |
| And out of all the windows | C |
| No matter where we went | J |
| The merriest eyes would follow me | K |
| And make me compliment | J |
| - | |
| There were a thousand windows | C |
| All latticed up and down | L |
| And up to all the windows | C |
| When we went back to town | L |
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| The queer folk put their faces | M |
| As gentle as could be | K |
| Come again little girl they called and I | N |
| Called back You come see me | K |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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