Cleaning The Windows. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IDID JKJK LMLM NONO| Wash the window rub it dry | A |
| Make the ray door clean and bright | B |
| He who lords it in the sky | A |
| Loves on cottage floors to light | B |
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| Looking over sea and beck | C |
| Mountain forest orchard bloom | D |
| He can spy the smallest speck | C |
| Anywhere about the room | D |
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| See how bright his torch is blazing | E |
| In the heart of mother's store | F |
| Strange I never saw him gazing | E |
| So into that press before | F |
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| Ah I see the wooden pane | G |
| In the window dull and dead | H |
| Father called its loss a gain | G |
| And a glass one put instead | H |
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| What a difference it makes | I |
| How it melts the filmy gloom | D |
| What a little more it takes | I |
| Much to brighten up a room | D |
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| There I spy a dusty streak | J |
| There a corner not quite clean | K |
| There a cobweb There the sneak | J |
| Of a spider watching keen | K |
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| Lord of suns and eyes that see | L |
| Shine into me see and show | M |
| Leave no darksome spot in me | L |
| Where thou dost not shining go | M |
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| Fill my spirit full of eyes | N |
| Doors of light in every part | O |
| Open windows to the skies | N |
| That no moth corrupt my heart | O |
George Macdonald
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