The Candle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFGHACIJKBLMNOO PQRSTUVRIWXYZIA2| By my bed on a little round table | A |
| The Grandmother placed a candle | A |
| She gave me three kisses telling me they were three | B |
| dreams | C |
| And tucked me in just where I loved being tucked | D |
| Then she went out of the room and the door was shut | E |
| I lay still waiting for my three dreams to talk | F |
| But they were silent | G |
| Suddenly I remember giving her three kisses back | H |
| Perhaps by mistake I had given my three little | A |
| dreams | C |
| I sat up in bed | I |
| The room grew big oh bigger far than a church | J |
| The wardrobe quite by itself as big as a house | K |
| And the jug on the washstand smiled at me | B |
| It was not a friendly smile | L |
| I looked at the basket chair where my clothes lay | M |
| folded | N |
| The chair gave a creak as though it were listening | O |
| for something | O |
| Perhaps it was coming alive and going to dress in | P |
| my clothes | Q |
| But the awful thing was the window | R |
| I could not think what was outside | S |
| No tree to be seen I was sure | T |
| No nice little plant or friendly pebbly path | U |
| Why did she pull the blind down every night | V |
| It was better to know | R |
| I crunched my teeth and crept out of bed | I |
| I peeped through a slit of the blind | W |
| There was nothing at all to be seen | X |
| But hundreds of friendly candles all over the sky | Y |
| In remembrance of frightened children | Z |
| I went back to bed | I |
| The three dreams started singing a little song | A2 |
Katherine Mansfield
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