On The Threshold Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDD EFEFGG HIHIJJ KLKLMM JNJNOO PQRQSS| INTRODUCTION TO A COLLECTION OF POEMS BYDIFFERENT AUTHORS | A |
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| AN usher standing at the door | B |
| I show my white rosette | C |
| A smile of welcome nothing more | B |
| Will pay my trifling debt | C |
| Why should I bid you idly wait | D |
| Like lovers at the swinging gate | D |
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| Can I forget the wedding guest | E |
| The veteran of the sea | F |
| In vain the listener smites his breast | E |
| 'There was a ship ' cries he | F |
| Poor fasting victim stunned and pale | G |
| He needs must listen to the tale | G |
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| He sees the gilded throng within | H |
| The sparkling goblets gleam | I |
| The music and the merry din | H |
| Through every window stream | I |
| But there he shivers in the cold | J |
| Till all the crazy dream is told | J |
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| Not mine the graybeard's glittering eye | K |
| That held his captive still | L |
| To hold my silent prisoners by | K |
| And let me have my will | L |
| Nay I were like the three years' child | M |
| To think you could be so beguiled | M |
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| My verse is but the curtain's fold | J |
| That hides the painted scene | N |
| The mist by morning's ray unrolled | J |
| That veils the meadow's green | N |
| The cloud that needs must drift away | O |
| To show the rose of opening day | O |
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| See from the tinkling rill you hear | P |
| In hollowed palm I bring | Q |
| These scanty drops but ah how near | R |
| The founts that heavenward spring | Q |
| Thus open wide the gates are thrown | S |
| And founts and flowers are all your own | S |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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