An Arrow-slit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEFE GHA IJBJ KLA| I clomb full high the belfry tower | A |
| Up to yon arrow slit up and away | B |
| I said 'let me look on my heart's fair flower | A |
| In the wall d garden where she doth play ' | C |
| - | |
| My care she knoweth not no nor the cause | D |
| White rose red rose about her hung | E |
| And I aloft with the doves and the daws | F |
| They coo and call to their callow young | E |
| - | |
| Sing 'O an she were a white rosebud fair | G |
| Dropt and in danger from passing feet | H |
| 'T is I would render her service tender | A |
| Upraised on my bosom with reverence meet ' | - |
| - | |
| Playing at the ball my dearest of all | I |
| When she grows older how will it be | J |
| I dwell far away from her thoughts to day | B |
| That heed not need not or mine or me | J |
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| Sing 'O an my love were a fledgeling dove | K |
| That flutters forlorn o' her shallow nest | L |
| 'T is I would render her service tender | A |
| And carry her carry her on my breast ' | - |
Jean Ingelow
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