Under Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLM NODF PQRQ STUT VWXW YZA2Z B2C2D2C2 D2E2F2G2| In this house she said in this high second storey | A |
| In this room where we sit above the midnight street | B |
| There runs a rivulet narrow but very rapid | C |
| Under the still floor and your unconscious feet | B |
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| The lamp on the table made a cone of light | D |
| That spread to the base of the walls above was in gloom | E |
| I heard her words with surprise had I worked here so long | F |
| And never divined that secret of the room | E |
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| But how I asked does the water climb so high | G |
| I do not know she said but the thing is there | H |
| Pull up the boards while I go and fetch you a rod | I |
| She passed and I heard her creaking descend the stair | H |
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| And I rose and rolled the Turkey carpet back | J |
| From the two broad boards by the north wall she had named | K |
| And hearing already the crumple of water I knelt | L |
| And lifted the first of them up and the water gleamed | M |
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| Bordered with little frosted heaps of ice | N |
| And as she came back with a rod and line that swung | O |
| I moved the other board in the yellow light | D |
| The water trickled frostily slackly along | F |
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| I took the tackle a stiff black rubber worm | P |
| That stuck out its pointed tail from a cumbrous hook | Q |
| But there can't be fishing in water like this I said | R |
| And she with weariness There is no ice there Look | Q |
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| And I stood there gazing down at a stream in spate | S |
| Holding the rod in my undecided hand | T |
| Till it all in a moment grew smooth and still and clear | U |
| And along its deep bottom of slaty grey sand | T |
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| Three scattered little trout as black as tadpoles | V |
| Came waggling slowly along the glass dark lake | W |
| And I swung my arm to drop my pointing worm in | X |
| And then I stopped again with a little shake | W |
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| For I heard the thin gnat like voices of the trout | Y |
| My body felt woolly and sick and astray and cold | Z |
| Crying with mockery in them You are not allowed | A2 |
| To take us you know under ten years old | Z |
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| And the room swam the calm woman and the yellow lamp | B2 |
| The table and the dim glistering walls and the floor | C2 |
| And the stream sank away and all whirled dizzily | D2 |
| And I moaned and the pain at my heart grew more and more | C2 |
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| And I fainted away utterly miserable | D2 |
| Falling in a place where there was nothing to pass | E2 |
| Knowing all sorrows and the mothers and sisters of sorrows | F2 |
| And the pain of the darkness before anything ever was | G2 |
John Collings Squire, Sir
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