Night-scented Stock Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE BBGGHH IIJJKLKL MMNNOO PHQHRSTSTB UB| White white in the milky night | A |
| The moon danced over a tree | B |
| Wouldn't it be lovely to swim in the lake | C |
| Someone whispered to me | B |
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| Oh do do do cooed someone else | D |
| And clasped her hands to her chin | E |
| I should so love to see the white bodies | F |
| All the white bodies jump in | E |
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| The big dark house hid secretly | B |
| Behind the magnolia and the spreading pear tree | B |
| But there was a sound of music music rippled and ran | G |
| Like a lady laughing behind her fan | G |
| Laughing and mocking and running away | H |
| Come into the garden it's as light as day | H |
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| I can't dance to that Hungarian stuff | I |
| The rhythm in it is not passionate enough | I |
| Said somebody I absolutely refuse | J |
| But he took off his socks and his shoes | J |
| And round he spun It's like Hungarian fruit dishes | K |
| Hard and bright a mechanical blue | L |
| His white feet flicked in the grass like fishes | K |
| Someone cried I want to dance too | L |
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| But one with a queer Russian ballet head | M |
| Curled up on a blue wooden bench instead | M |
| And another shadowy shadowy and tall | N |
| Walked in the shadow of the dark house wall | N |
| Someone beside her It shone in the gloom | O |
| His round grey hat like a wet mushroom | O |
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| Don't you think perhaps piped someone's flute | P |
| How sweet the flowers smell I heard the other say | H |
| Somebody picked a wet wet pink | Q |
| Smelled it and threw it away | H |
| Is the moon a virgin or is she a harlot | R |
| Asked somebody Nobody would tell | S |
| The faces and the hands moved in a pattern | T |
| As the music rose and fell | S |
| In a dancing mysterious moon bright pattern | T |
| Like flowers nodding under the sea | B |
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| The music stopped and there was nothing left of them | U |
| But the moon dancing over the tree | B |
Katherine Mansfield
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