The Study In Aesthetics Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD E DFGDHDDDIJDCKDLMD E N| The very small children in patched clothing | A |
| Being smitten with an unusual wisdom | B |
| Stopped in their play as she passed them | C |
| And cried up from their cobbles | D |
| - | |
| Guarda Ahi guarda Ch be a | E |
| - | |
| But three years after this | D |
| I heard the young Dante whose last name I do not | F |
| know | G |
| For there are in Sirmione twenty eight young Dantes | D |
| and thirty four Catulli | H |
| And there had been a great catch of sardines | D |
| And his elders | D |
| Were packing them in the great wooden boxes | D |
| For the market in Brescia and he | I |
| Leapt about snatching at the bright fish | J |
| And getting in both of their ways | D |
| And in vain they commanded him to stafermo | C |
| And when they would not let him arrange | K |
| The fish in the boxes | D |
| He stroked those which were already arranged | L |
| Murmuring for his own satisfaction | M |
| This identical phrase | D |
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| Ch be a | E |
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| And at this I was mildly abashed | N |
Ezra Pound
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