The Screen In The Lumber Room Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EDEDFGFG HFHFIJIJ KLKLFMFN OPOQBRBR| Yes here it is behind the box | A |
| That puzzle wrought so neatly | B |
| That paradise of paradox | A |
| We once knew so completely | B |
| You see it 'Tis the same I swear | C |
| Which stood that chill September | D |
| Beside your aunt Lavinia's chair | C |
| The year when You remember | D |
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| Look Laura look You must recall | E |
| This florid Fairy's Bower | D |
| This wonderful Swiss waterfall | E |
| And this old Leaning Tower | D |
| And here's the Maiden of Cashmere | F |
| And here is Bewick's Starling | G |
| And here the dandy cuirassier | F |
| You thought was such a Darling | G |
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| Your poor dear Aunt you know her way | H |
| She used to say this figure | F |
| Reminded her of Count D'Orsay | H |
| In all his youthful vigour | F |
| And here's the cot beside the hill | I |
| We chose for habitation | J |
| The day that But I doubt if still | I |
| You'd like the situation | J |
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| Too damp by far She little knew | K |
| Your guileless Aunt Lavinia | L |
| Those evenings when she slumbered through | K |
| The Prince of Abyssinia | L |
| That there were two beside her chair | F |
| Who both had quite decided | M |
| To see things in a rosier air | F |
| Than Rasselas provided | N |
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| Ah men wore stocks in Britain's land | O |
| And maids short waists and tippets | P |
| When this old fashioned screen was planned | O |
| From hoarded scraps and snippets | Q |
| But more far more I think to me | B |
| Than those who first designed it | R |
| Is this in Eighteen Seventy Three | B |
| I kissed you first behind it | R |
Henry Austin Dobson
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