An Old Fish Pond Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GBGB HIHI JKJK LMLM BNBN OPOQ RORO STST ABAB| Green growths of mosses drop and bead | A |
| Around the granite brink | B |
| And 'twixt the isles of water weed | A |
| The wood birds dip and drink | B |
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| Slow efts about the edges sleep | C |
| Swift darting water flies | D |
| Shoot on the surface down the deep | C |
| Fast following bubbles rise | D |
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| Look down What groves that scarcely sway | E |
| What wood obscure profound | F |
| What jungle where some beast of prey | E |
| Might choose his vantage ground | F |
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| Who knows what lurks beneath the tide | G |
| Who knows what tale Belike | B |
| Those antres vast and shadows hide | G |
| Some patriarchal Pike | B |
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| Some tough old tyrant wrinkle jawed | H |
| To whom the sky the earth | I |
| Have but for aim to look on awed | H |
| And see him wax in girth | I |
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| Hard ruler there by right of might | J |
| An ageless Autocrat | K |
| Whose good old rule is Appetite | J |
| And subjects fresh and fat | K |
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| While they poor souls in wan despair | L |
| Still watch for signs in him | M |
| And dying hand from heir to heir | L |
| The day undawned and dim | M |
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| When the pond's terror too must go | B |
| Or creeping in by stealth | N |
| Some bolder brood with common blow | B |
| Shall found a Commonwealth | N |
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| Or say perchance the liker this | O |
| That these themselves are gone | P |
| That Amurath in minimis | O |
| Still hungry lingers on | Q |
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| With dwindling trunk and wolfish jaw | R |
| Revolving sullen things | O |
| But most the blind unequal law | R |
| That rules the food of Kings | O |
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| The blot that makes the cosmic All | S |
| A mere time honoured cheat | T |
| That bids the Great to eat the Small | S |
| Yet lack the Small to eat | T |
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| Who knows Meanwhile the mosses bead | A |
| Around the granite brink | B |
| And 'twixt the isles of water weed | A |
| The wood birds dip and drink | B |
Henry Austin Dobson
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