A Little Picture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGHIJHFFKLMFCNMOPHC QRHSCTFIGUC| Oft when pacing thro' the long and dim | A |
| Dark gallery of the Past I pause before | B |
| A picture of which this is a copy | C |
| Wretched at best | D |
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| How fair she look'd standing a tiptoe there | E |
| Pois'd daintily upon her little feet | F |
| The slanting sunset falling thro' the leaves | G |
| In golden glory on her smiling face | H |
| Upturn'd towards the blushing roses while | I |
| The breeze that came up from the river's brink | J |
| Shook all their clusters over her fair face | H |
| And sported with her robe until methought | F |
| That she stood there clad wondrously indeed | F |
| In perfume and in music for her dress | K |
| Made a low rippling sound like little waves | L |
| That break at midnight on the tawny sands | M |
| While all the evening air of roses whisper'd | F |
| Over her face a rich warm blush spread slowly | C |
| And she laughed a low sweet mellow laugh | N |
| To see the branches still evade her hands | M |
| Her small white hands which seem'd indeed as if | O |
| Made only thus to gather roses | P |
| Then with face | H |
| All flushed and smiling she did nod to me | C |
| Asking my help to gather them for her | Q |
| And so I bent the heavy clusters down | R |
| Show'ring the rose leaves o'er her neck and face | H |
| Then carefully she plucked the very fairest one | S |
| And court'seying playfully gave it to me | C |
| Show'd me her finger tip pricked by a thorn | T |
| And when I would have kiss'd it shook her head | F |
| Kiss'd it herself and mock'd me with a smile | I |
| The rose she gave me sleeps between the leaves | G |
| Of an old poet where its sight oft brings | U |
| That summer evening back again to me | C |
James Barron Hope
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