Prologue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EEFGHE IBD HB JDBDBD BKJK K BJBJDJ LBBBDB| 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 pretence | 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 xclm | G |
| Yet what can one poor voice avail | H |
| Against three tongues together | E |
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| Imperious Prima flashes forth | I |
| Her edict to begin it'' | B |
| In gentler tones Secunda hopes | D |
| There will be nonsense in it '' | - |
| While Tertia interrupts the tale | H |
| Not more than once a minute | B |
| - | |
| Anon to sudden silence won | J |
| In fancy they pursue | D |
| The dream child moving through a land | B |
| Of wonders wild and new | D |
| In friendly chat with bird or beast | B |
| And half believe it true | D |
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| And ever as the story drained | B |
| The wells of fancy dry | K |
| And faintly strove that weary one | J |
| To put the subject by | K |
| The rest next time '' It is next time '' | - |
| The happy voices cry | K |
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| Thus grew the tale of Wonderland | B |
| Thus slowly one by one | J |
| Its quaint events were hammered out | B |
| And now the tale is done | J |
| And home we steer a merry crew | D |
| Beneath the setting sun | J |
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| Alice A childish story take | L |
| And with a gentle hand | B |
| Lay it where Childhoood's dreams are twined | B |
| In Memory's mystic band | B |
| Like pilgrim's wither'd wreath of flowers | D |
| Pluck'd in a far off land | B |
Lewis Carroll
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