Goldfish Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FFGG HIHJJ KLMNL OOPP| They are the angels of that watery world | A |
| With so much knowledge that they just aspire | B |
| To move themselves on golden fins | C |
| Or fill their paradise with fire | D |
| By darting suddenly from end to end | E |
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| Glowing a thousand centuries behind | F |
| In pools half recollected of the mind | F |
| Their large eyes stare and stare but do not see | G |
| Beyond those curtains of Eternity | G |
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| When twilight flows into the room | H |
| And air becomes like water you can feel | I |
| Their movements growing larger in the gloom | H |
| And you are led | J |
| Backward to where they live beyond the dead | J |
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| But in the morning when the seven rays | K |
| Of London sunlight one by one incline | L |
| They glide to meet them and their gulping lips | M |
| Suck the light in so they are caught and played | N |
| Like salmon on a heavenly fishing line | L |
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| Ghosts on a twilight floor | O |
| Moving about behind their watery door | O |
| Breathing and yet not breathing day and night | P |
| They give the house some gleam of faint delight | P |
Harold Edward Monro
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