To Flush, My Dog Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD EEFGGF HHIJKI LLMNNM FFIOOI PCQRSQ TTIUUV| Yet my pretty sportive friend | A |
| Little is't to such an end | A |
| That I praise thy rareness | B |
| Other dogs may be thy peers | C |
| Haply in these drooping ears | C |
| And this glossy fairness | D |
| - | |
| But of thee it shall be said | E |
| This dog watched beside a bed | E |
| Day and night unweary | F |
| Watched within a curtained room | G |
| Where no sunbeam brake the gloom | G |
| Round the sick and dreary | F |
| - | |
| Roses gathered for a vase | H |
| In that chamber died apace | H |
| Beam and breeze resigning | I |
| This dog only waited on | J |
| Knowing that when light is gone | K |
| Love remains for shining | I |
| - | |
| Other dogs in thymy dew | L |
| Tracked the hares and followed through | L |
| Sunny moor or meadow | M |
| This dog only crept and crept | N |
| Next a languid cheek that slept | N |
| Sharing in the shadow | M |
| - | |
| Other dogs of loyal cheer | F |
| Bounded at the whistle clear | F |
| Up the woodside hieing | I |
| This dog only watched in reach | O |
| Of a faintly uttered speech | O |
| Or a louder sighing | I |
| - | |
| And if one or two quick tears | P |
| Dropped upon his glossy ears | C |
| Or a sigh came double | Q |
| Up he sprang in eager haste | R |
| Fawning fondling breathing fast | S |
| In a tender trouble | Q |
| - | |
| And this dog was satisfied | T |
| If a pale thin hand would glide | T |
| Down his dewlaps sloping | I |
| Which he pushed his nose within | U |
| After platforming his chin | U |
| On the palm left open | V |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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