The Creeper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHH IIJJKKBB LLMMNOPP| It covered all | A |
| The cold east wall | A |
| Its green thin gold purple brown | B |
| And flame running up and down | B |
| Lifting its quiet bosom to every wind that crept | C |
| Up the high wall and in its darkness slept | C |
| Then when the wind slept all the creeper turned | D |
| To undiminishing fire that burned and burned and burned | D |
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| But one black night | E |
| For not in the light | E |
| May such treacheries be done | F |
| Came with dishonoured weapon one | F |
| And cut the stem just where the branches thin | G |
| Their million leaf'd wild wandering begin | G |
| Cut the firm stem quite through and so it bled | H |
| And all the million leaves shivered and hung there dead | H |
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| The wall how cold | I |
| The house how old | I |
| Became when that warm bright fire died | J |
| And the fond wind could no more hide | J |
| And it was strange that so much death could be | K |
| From one dark night hour's darker felony | K |
| And how the leaves being dead could not cast down | B |
| Their colours in bright pools of red and gold and brown | B |
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| It did not die | L |
| But flamed on high | L |
| Morn after morn even when white snow | M |
| Covered all brightness high and low | M |
| And in the night when the snow glimmered wan | N |
| Still beautiful as a fire its brightness shone | O |
| Its million quiet leaves quivering in my mind | P |
| When from no earthly meadows crept the remembered wind | P |
John Freeman
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