My Castle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE AGHG IJKJ LMDM AKKK NKIK KOKO NBDB PQRQ QBSB NJTJ KUVU KQWQ| I have a beautiful castle | A |
| With towers and battlements fair | B |
| And many a banner with gay device | C |
| Floats in the outer air | B |
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| The walls are of solid silver | D |
| The towers are of massive gold | E |
| And the lights that stream from the windows | F |
| A royal scene unfold | E |
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| Ah could you but enter my castle | A |
| With its pomp of regal sheen | G |
| You would say that it far surpasses | H |
| The palace of Aladeen | G |
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| Could you but enter as I do | I |
| And pace through the vaulted hall | J |
| And mark the stately columns | K |
| And the pictures on the wall | J |
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| With the costly gems about them | L |
| That send their light afar | M |
| With a chaste and softened splendor | D |
| Like the light of a distant star | M |
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| And where is this wonderful castle | A |
| With its rich emblazonings | K |
| Whose pomp so far surpasses | K |
| The homes of the greatest kings | K |
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| Come out with me at morning | N |
| And lie in the meadow grass | K |
| And lift your eyes to the ether blue | I |
| And you will see it pass | K |
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| There can you not see the battlements | K |
| And the turrets stately and high | O |
| Whose lofty summits are tipped with clouds | K |
| And lost in the arching sky | O |
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| Dear friend you are only dreaming | N |
| Your castle so stately and fair | B |
| Is only a fanciful structure | D |
| A castle in the air | B |
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| Perchance you are right I know not | P |
| If a phantom it may be | Q |
| But yet in my inmost heart I feel | R |
| That it lives and lives for me | Q |
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| For when clouds and darkness are round me | Q |
| And my heart is heavy with care | B |
| I steal me away from the noisy crowd | S |
| To dwell in my castle fair | B |
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| There are servants to do my bidding | N |
| There are servants to heed my call | J |
| And I with a master's air of pride | T |
| May pace through the vaulted hall | J |
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| And I envy not the monarchs | K |
| With cities under their sway | U |
| For am I not in my own right | V |
| A monarch as proud as they | U |
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| What matter then if to others | K |
| My castle a phantom may be | Q |
| Since I feel in the depths of my own heart | W |
| That it is not so to me | Q |
Horatio Alger, Jr.
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