To Mrs. K--, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFF GGHHIIJJKKLLMM| WHAT crowding thoughts around me wake | A |
| What marvels in a Christmas cake | A |
| Ah say what strange enchantment dwells | B |
| Enclos'd within its od'rous cells | B |
| Is there no small magician bound | C |
| Encrusted in its snowy round | C |
| For magic surely lurks in this | D |
| A cake that tells of vanish'd bliss | D |
| A cake that conjures up to view | E |
| The early scenes when life was new | E |
| When mem'ry knew no sorrows past | F |
| And hope believ'd in joys that last | F |
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| Mysterious cake whose folds contain | G |
| Life's calendar of bliss and pain | G |
| That speaks of friends for ever fled | H |
| And wakes the tears I love to shed | H |
| Oft shall I breathe her cherish'd name | I |
| From whose fair hand the off'ring came | I |
| For she recalls the artless smile | J |
| Of nymphs that deck my native Isle | J |
| Of beauty that we love to trace | K |
| Allied with tender modest grace | K |
| Of those who while abroad they roam | L |
| Retain each charm that gladdens home | L |
| And whose dear friendship can impart | M |
| A Christmas banquet for the heart | M |
Helen Maria Williams
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