The Foundling Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFGHI JKLKKM NODPQM| Snow wraiths circle us | A |
| Like washers of the dead | B |
| Flapping their white wet cloths | C |
| Impatiently | D |
| About the grizzled head | B |
| Where the coarse hair mats like grass | E |
| And the efficient wind | F |
| With cold professional baste | G |
| Probes like a lancet | H |
| Through the cotton shirt | I |
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| About us are white cliffs and space | J |
| No fa ccedil ades show | K |
| Nor roof nor any spire | L |
| All sheathed in snow | K |
| The parasitic snow | K |
| That clings about them like a blight | M |
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| Only detached lights | N |
| Float hazily like greenish moons | O |
| And endlessly | D |
| Down the whore street | P |
| Accouched and comforted and sleeping warm | Q |
| The blizzard waltzes with the night | M |
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