All In The Golden Afternoon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EEFEGE HIJIGK LMNMOM PQLQRQ NLSLML TNUNVN| All in the golden afternoon | A |
| Full leisurely we glide | B |
| For both our oars with little skill | C |
| By little arms are plied | B |
| While little hands make vain pretense | D |
| Our wanderings to guide | B |
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| Ah cruel Three In such an hour | E |
| Beneath such dreamy weather | E |
| To beg a tale of breath too weak | F |
| To stir the tiniest feather | E |
| Yet what can one poor voice avail | G |
| Against three tongues together | E |
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| Imperious Prima flashes forth | H |
| Her edict to begin it | I |
| In gentler tones Secunda hopes | J |
| There will be nonsense in it | I |
| While Tertia interrupts the tale | G |
| Not more than once a minute | K |
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| Anon to sudden silence won | L |
| In fancy they pursue | M |
| The dream child moving through a land | N |
| Of wonders wild and new | M |
| In friendly chat with bird or beast | O |
| And half believe it true | M |
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| And ever as the story drained | P |
| The wells of fancy dry | Q |
| And faintly strove that weary one | L |
| To put the subject by | Q |
| The rest next time It is next time | R |
| The happy voices cry | Q |
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| Thus grew the tale of Wonderland | N |
| Thus slowly one by one | L |
| Its quaint events were hammered out | S |
| And now the tale is done | L |
| And home we steer a merry crew | M |
| Beneath the setting sun | L |
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| Alice a childish story take | T |
| And with a gentle hand | N |
| Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined | U |
| In Memory's mystic band | N |
| Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers | V |
| Plucked in a far off land | N |
Lewis Carroll
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