Camomile Tea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBDB EBFB GBHB DBIB| Outside the sky is light with stars | A |
| There's a hollow roaring from the sea | B |
| And alas for the little almond flowers | C |
| The wind is shaking the almond tree | B |
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| How little I thought a year ago | D |
| In the horrible cottage upon the Lee | B |
| That he and I should be sitting so | D |
| And sipping a cup of camomile tea | B |
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| Light as feathers the witches fly | E |
| The horn of the moon is plain to see | B |
| By a firefly under a jonquil flower | F |
| A goblin toasts a bumble bee | B |
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| We might be fifty we might be five | G |
| So snug so compact so wise are we | B |
| Under the kitchen table leg | H |
| My knee is pressing against his knee | B |
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| Our shutters are shut the fire is low | D |
| The tap is dripping peacefully | B |
| The saucepan shadows on the wall | I |
| Are black and round and plain to see | B |
Katherine Mansfield
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